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sick   (TTS Sound)

The noun sick has 1 sense

• sick -- (people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick")

The verb sick has 1 sense

• vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up -- (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night")

The adj sick has 7 senses

• ill, sick -- (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering")


• nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish -- (feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit)


• brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged -- (affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad")


• disgusted, fed up, sick, sick of, tired of -- (having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke")


• pale, pallid, wan, sick -- ((of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn")


• sick -- (deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing")


• ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick -- (shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen")