transcription, транскрипция: [ sɪk ]
( sicker, sickest)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you are sick , you are ill. Sick usually means physically ill, but it can sometimes be used to mean mentally ill.
He’s very sick. He needs medication...
She found herself with two small children, a sick husband, and no money...
ADJ
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The sick are people who are sick.
There were no doctors to treat the sick.
N-PLURAL : the N
2.
If you are sick , the food that you have eaten comes up from your stomach and out of your mouth. If you feel sick , you feel as if you are going to be sick.
She got up and was sick in the handbasin...
The very thought of food made him feel sick...
ADJ : v-link ADJ
3.
Sick is vomit. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you say that you are sick of something or sick and tired of it, you are emphasizing that you are very annoyed by it and want it to stop. ( INFORMAL )
I am sick and tired of hearing all these people moaning...
= fed up
ADJ : v-link ADJ of n / -ing [ emphasis ]
5.
If you describe something such as a joke or story as sick , you mean that it deals with death or suffering in an unpleasantly humorous way.
...a sick joke about a cat...
ADJ [ disapproval ]
6.
If you say that something or someone makes you sick , you mean that they make you feel angry or disgusted. ( INFORMAL )
It makes me sick that people commit offences and never get punished...
PHRASE : V inflects , oft it PHR that
7.
If you are off sick , you are not at work because you are ill.
When we are off sick, we only receive half pay.
PHRASE : usu v-link PHR
8.
If you say that you are worried sick , you are emphasizing that you are extremely worried. ( INFORMAL )
He was worried sick about what our mothers would say.
PHRASE : v-link PHR [ emphasis ]