noun
- People who are sick.
- usage: "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
verb
- Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
- usage: "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
adjective
- Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.
- usage: "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
- synonyms: ill
- Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit.
- Affected with madness or insanity.
- usage: "a man who had gone mad"
- Having a strong distaste from surfeit.
- usage: "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"
- Of light. ( lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble)
- usage: "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"
- Deeply affected by a strong feeling.
- usage: "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
- Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror.
- usage: "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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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