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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sick \Sick\, n. Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sick \Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.] 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under {Illness}. [1913 Webster] Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i. 30. [1913 Webster] Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18. [1913 Webster] 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. [1913 Webster] 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. [1913 Webster] He was not so sick of his master as of his work. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] 4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. [1913 Webster] So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] {Sick bay} (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. {Sick bed}, the bed upon which a person lies sick. {Sick berth}, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. {Sick headache} (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. {Sick list}, a list containing the names of the sick. {Sick room}, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.] [1913 Webster] Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: sick adj 1: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn: {ill}, {sick}] [ant: {well}] 2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: {nauseated}, {nauseous}, {queasy}, {sick}, {sickish}] 3: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: {brainsick}, {crazy}, {demented}, {disturbed}, {mad}, {sick}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}] 4: 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" [syn: {disgusted}, {fed up(p)}, {sick(p)}, {sick of(p)}, {tired of(p)}] 5: (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" [syn: {pale}, {pallid}, {wan}, {sick}] 6: deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing" 7: 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" [syn: {ghastly}, {grim}, {grisly}, {gruesome}, {macabre}, {sick}] n 1: people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick" v 1: 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" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit up}, {purge}, {cast}, {sick}, {cat}, {be sick}, {disgorge}, {regorge}, {retch}, {puke}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck}, {upchuck}, {honk}, {regurgitate}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]