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• sick — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English sek, sik, from Old English sēoc; akin to Old High German sioh sick Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) affected with disease or ill health ; ailing (2) of, relating to, or intended for use in sickness < sick …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sick — 1. adj., n., & v. adj. 1 (often in comb.) esp. Brit. vomiting or tending to vomit (feels sick; has been sick; seasick). 2 esp. US ill; affected by illness (has been sick for a week; a sick man; sick with measles). 3 a (often foll. by at) esp.… …   Useful english dictionary

• sick — sick1 [sik] adj. [ME sik, seke < OE seoc, akin to Ger siech < IE base * seug , to be troubled or grieved > Arm hiucanim, (I) am weakening] 1. suffering from disease or illness; unwell; ill: in this sense, now rare or literary in England… …   English World dictionary

• sick — ► ADJECTIVE 1) affected by physical or mental illness. 2) feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit. 3) informal disappointed, embarrassed, or miserable. 4) (sick of) bored by or annoyed with through excessive exposure. 5) informal having abnormal or …   English terms dictionary

• sick — /sɪk / (say sik) adjective 1. affected with a disorder of health; ill, unwell, or ailing. 2. affected with nausea; inclined to vomit, or vomiting. 3. of or attended with sickness. 4. pale; wan. 5. of or appropriate to sick persons: on sick leave …  

• sick — sick1 adjective 1》 affected by physical or mental illness. 2》 feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit.     ↘informal disappointed, mortified, or miserable.     ↘archaic pining or longing. 3》 (sick of) bored by or annoyed with through excessive… …   English new terms dictionary

• sick — sɪk n. people who are ill, sick people collectively adj. ill, suffering from a disease or illness; nauseous, feeling the need to vomit; disgusted, fed up; pertaining to a sickness, pertaining to a disease; yearning, longing; infected with… …   English contemporary dictionary

• sick — a. 1. Ill, indisposed, ailing, unwell, laid up. 2. Nauseated, affected with nausea, sick at the stomach, inclined to vomit. 3. Disgusted, tired, weary. 4. Diseased, weak, morbid, unsound, distempered, disordered, feeble. 5. Pining, languishing,… …   New dictionary of synonyms

• home´sick´ness — home|sick «HOHM SIHK», adjective. overcome by sadness because home is far away; ill with longing for home: »I long to see my master s face again, For I turn homesick (Yeats). –home´sick´ness, noun …   Useful english dictionary

• home|sick — «HOHM SIHK», adjective. overcome by sadness because home is far away; ill with longing for home: »I long to see my master s face again, For I turn homesick (Yeats). –home´sick´ness, noun …   Useful english dictionary

• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Dorian Gray redirects here. For other uses, see Dorian Gray (disambiguation). For other uses, see The Picture of Dorian Gray (disambiguation). The Picture of Dorian Gray   …   Wikipedia