01 a. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
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Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. See: Illness“Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.” — Mark i. 30.“Behold them that are sick with famine.” — Jer. xiv. 18.
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2.
Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
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3.
Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.“He was not so sick of his master as of his work.” — L'Estrange.
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4.
Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.“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.
Phrases & compounds
Sick bay —
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 —
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.
Syn.
Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.