ENGLISH: sick - CREOLE: malad



Overview of noun sick



The noun sick has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)



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



Overview of verb sick



The verb sick has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)



1. 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")



Overview of adj sick



The adj sick has 7 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)



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

2. (7) nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish -- (feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit)

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

4. (1) 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")

5. 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")

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

7. 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")

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