I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cruel/sick joke (= very unkind )
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When I heard he had cancer, at first I thought it was some kind of sick joke.
a sick infant
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Sick infants are treated in the intensive care nursery.
be sick at heart (= to feel very unhappy )
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He was too sick at heart to know what to say.
be sick/frantic with worry
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The girl's mother was sick with worry over her missing daughter.
heartily sick of
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Madge had become heartily sick of the city.
phoned in sick (= telephoned to say that she was ill and could not come to work )
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She phoned in sick .
physically ill/sick
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The thought made her feel physically ill.
rang in sick (= telephoned to say he was ill )
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He rang in sick every morning for a week.
sick building syndrome
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A common household fungus can contribute to sick building syndrome.
sick leave ( also medical leave American English ) (= time that you are allowed away from work because you are ill )
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The form must be filled in as soon as you return from sick leave.
sick leave
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He has been on sick leave for more than three months.
sick note
sick pay (= pay when you are ill )
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As a self-employed person, you get no sick pay or benefits.
sick pay
signed off sick
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For the last month, she has been signed off sick from work.
violently sick/ill
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He rushed to the bathroom, where he was violently sick.
worried sick/stiff (= extremely worried )
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Where have you been? We’ve been worried sick!
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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In fact, the dividing lines were often difficult to draw between those formally described as sick and those described as early-retired.
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You look as sick as I feel.
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He is not as sick as he thinks he is.
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Homosexuality aroused revulsion in about a quarter of the respondents, another quarter seeing it as sick , odd or ridiculous.
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But not as sick as Vicky, who every morning now staggered up to retch helplessly into the slop bucket.
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Other voters are as sick of the situation as Dmitri is.
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Peter Beardsley International Football As sick as a parrot.
chronically
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It was criticised as apparently unequal to all the needs of chronically sick children and helpless geriatrics.
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Private insurance schemes clearly do not wish to become involved with either the mentally ill or the chronically sick .
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For a widow or for a chronically sick parent with three children, the total loss is almost £20 or £1,030 perannum.
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Two members lived in local authority homes and 15 in households characterised by unemployment and chronically sick and/or lone parents.
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Elderly people and chronically sick people in residential and nursing homes will not be the only ones to benefit.
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It has been converted to provide accommodation for up to 60 chronically sick or severely disabled residents.
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The unemployed, the poor, the chronically sick and disabled and of course children would need to be covered by public money.
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The chronically sick sought him out endlessly for healing from their never-ending weakness.
so
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It makes you so sick that you lose the baby.
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They were young and so sick with the absence of women they had taken to calves.
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I have never seen her looking so sick and skinny.
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I am so sick of judges writing psalms to arbitration.
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She felt so sick that it was lunchtime before she could drag herself out of bed and come downstairs.
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After the Stone Roses experience I wasn't going to do anything again, I was so sick of it all.
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Is our society really so sick that we call this scientific advance?
too
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The lifts were for transporting patients too sick to protest to departments on higher floors.
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Maybe he thought I was too sick to run.
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February Henrietta feeling too sick to remember anything about February.
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If some one had a wound, or looked too weak or too sick , they were selected for the gas chamber.
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I knew she was unhappy about his going away for a whole weekend when she was too sick to accompany him.
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I already called, said you were too sick .
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It will not leave me too sick , it will not punish me too much.
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I try to ask her, but I feel too sick .
very
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And soon he had the good news that this tiny refugee was fit enough to continue - though still very sick .
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I had the luxury of not being very sick .
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Do whatever is necessary to get a very sick young infant seen.
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He was always in the cheerful rooms upstairs, where the Sisters kept a constant vigil on premature and very sick children.
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The scene in Basic Instinct with Michael was a very weird and very sick sort of love.
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Now she is very sick again.
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Some children had last-minute treats of ice cream and sweets which made them very sick .
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Please, sir, my donkey Violetta is very sick .
violently
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When they leave, Ann is violently sick .
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A moment later he turned to his right and was violently sick .
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Feeling her stomach churn with the painful memories, she leaned sideways and was violently sick .
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I managed to drive out of the hospital but I had to stop the car and was violently sick .
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I can cheerfully admit that it made no impact on me apart from an overwhelming urge to be violently sick .
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The stench is so powerful that you feel - and sometimes are - violently sick .
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In mid-sentence he broke off, turned ghastly pale and rushed to the bathroom, where he was violently sick .
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Rex turned away and was violently sick . 11 25.
■ NOUN
bay
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He padded them out with a torn sheet from sick bay to stop them making any noise.
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His weight dropped from 145 to 97 pounds, and he had to be placed in the camp sick bay .
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He took one from the cupboard in the sick bay .
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Go back to the sick bay and tell him to take it out again at once.
building
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It believes that the economic evidence on the significance of sick building syndrome is of the greatest importance.
child
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It is a terrible thing to be clung to by a sick child if you are not used to it.
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Families told researchers that they had found greater solidarity and amity in their family life now that they had a sick child .
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Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times.
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His tomb is believed to be a place for healing sick children .
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She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children .
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He was always in the cheerful rooms upstairs, where the Sisters kept a constant vigil on premature and very sick children .
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Most of it will be spent providing hospital accommodation for parents who want to stay with their sick children .
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A sick child was the first step toward utter family ruin.
feeling
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A sick feeling was beginning in the base of her stomach, growing, filling her with blind misery.
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Finally, a sick feeling in his belly, as though something there was twisted, pulsing pain. he left the room.
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Meryl followed the young detective constable to the library door with a sick feeling in her stomach.
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Nina remained on the fringe of the crowd, a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach.
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Bernice felt a sick feeling begin to develop in her stomach.
joke
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In 1981, you couldn't pass off wearing a swastika as a sick joke .
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I thought it was a sick joke , but it wasn't.
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Oh, and plantation workers sometimes earn as little as 25 cents a day ... These are sick jokes .
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Either way, it was an occasion for black humour, or at least sick jokes .
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It sounds like a sick joke but they are deadly serious.
leave
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The woman suffered bruising to the head and body in the impact and went on sick leave from work.
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Then they learn that Lincoln employees receive no company-paid dental insurance benefits, no paid holidays, and have no sick leave .
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If the technology is not firm-wide train an extra secretary to cover for others who are on holiday or sick leave .
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Accumulating days for sick leave proved to be a trap.
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Generally a trend of sick leave or requests for transfers by other women who have worked for this person will emerge.
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I could take the afternoon off from work as sick leave .
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J Nyberg had now returned from sick leave .
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It meant giving up the security of my salary, together with sick leave , fringe benefits, and long vacation time.
pay
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A key element of the package was a reduction in guaranteed sick pay .
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The terms of any company sick pay scheme also need to be considered.
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Kohl wanted to reduce sick pay to 80 percent of wages.
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Thus, one could consider such factors as hours, sick pay , pension schemes and holiday entitlements.
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Of course, employers' sick pay does not go on indefinitely.
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I remember when sick pay and conditions were added and when, under the wages councils, wage rates were raised.
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One feature of the absence screens is that sick pay and absence entitlements are displayed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sick of/can't stand/hate the sight of sb/sth
be taken ill/sick
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At two years and a half, he was taken ill with pneumonia.
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During the siege of Bristol he was taken ill with the plague and again feared for his life.
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His sister ate one, and was taken ill.
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Several of the team were taken ill.
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Taylor, 47, was taken ill last week while working on his third album in a Florida recording studio.
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Then Mum had cancer and Dad was taken ill at work.
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We were just about to go abroad when our usual nanny was taken ill and was advised not to travel.
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Whilst in Fort William she was taken ill with stomach pains.
maternity/sick/compassionate leave
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Accumulating days for sick leave proved to be a trap.
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Generally a trend of sick leave or requests for transfers by other women who have worked for this person will emerge.
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I could take the afternoon off from work as sick leave .
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If the technology is not firm-wide train an extra secretary to cover for others who are on holiday or sick leave .
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Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral.
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She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave .
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These work-force-centered benefits helped businesses retain their most valuable employees. Sick leave policies changed.
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When they go on sick leave , their aggregate take-home pay is actually higher than when they are on the job.
report sick
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Spurs clearly felt the loss of their big centre-back Guy Butters, who had reported sick on the coach journey to Essex.
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Time allowed 00:20 Read in studio Trade unions at Rover Cars have attacked plans to penalise staff who continually report sick.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gary phoned to say that he's off sick today.
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Grant Hill played despite being sick with the flu for the past ten days.
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I'm sorry I didn't reply to your e-mail. I was in bed sick for a couple of days.
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Is this somebody's idea of a sick joke?
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One of the suspect's neighbors described him as "a very sick man."
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Sheila spent months looking after her sick mother.
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We were dirty, hungry, cold and sick with exhaustion.
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Where's Mary today? I hope she's not sick again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they also can't develop if people are sick and illiterate.
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I get travel sick , anyway.
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I was very sick for twenty-four hours, and Michael was coping with everything.
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Miguel was sick of being part of a machine that was eating up the city and spitting out the bones.
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Nall should have kept bringing the time down herself, but she got sick .
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So the family rule about illness, as Carrie Semple experienced it, was that the best child was a sick child.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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On average, companies lose twelve days per employee per year as a result of sickness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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They provided hospitality to travellers, and people with property endowed foundations for the care of the old and the sick .
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Under such circumstances it is frequently the sick who are the first to leave.
III. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sick of/can't stand/hate the sight of sb/sth
maternity/sick/compassionate leave
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Accumulating days for sick leave proved to be a trap.
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Generally a trend of sick leave or requests for transfers by other women who have worked for this person will emerge.
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I could take the afternoon off from work as sick leave .
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If the technology is not firm-wide train an extra secretary to cover for others who are on holiday or sick leave .
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Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral.
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She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave .
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These work-force-centered benefits helped businesses retain their most valuable employees. Sick leave policies changed.
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When they go on sick leave , their aggregate take-home pay is actually higher than when they are on the job.