sick

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sick
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Meanings
adjective
  • affected by physical or mental illness.
    E.g. nursing very sick children
  • feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit.
    E.g. he was starting to feel sick
  • intensely annoyed with or bored by (someone or something) as a result of having had too much of them.
    E.g. I'm absolutely sick of your moods
  • (especially of humour) having something unpleasant such as death or misfortune as its subject and dealing with it in an offensive way.
    E.g. this was someone's idea of a sick joke
  • excellent.
noun
  • vomit.
    E.g. she was busy wiping sick from the carpet
verb
  • bring something up by vomiting.
    E.g. he was passing blood and sicking it up
verb
  • set a dog on.
    E.g. the plan was to surprise the heck out of the grizzly by sicking the dog on him

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