Sick
Meanings and phrases
sick
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; ill
- feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit; nauseated; nauseous; queasy; sickish
- affected with madness or insanity; brainsick; crazy; demented; disturbed; mad; unbalanced; unhinged
- having a strong distaste from surfeit; disgusted; fed up; sick of; tired of
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; ghastly; grim; grisly; gruesome; macabre
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; pale; pallid; wan
- deeply affected by a strong feeling
sick
- people who are sick
sick
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit; vomit up; purge; cast; cat; be sick; disgorge; regorge; retch; puke; barf; spew; spue; chuck; upchuck; honk; regurgitate; throw up
n.
- a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation; extreme unction; last rites
v.
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit; vomit up; purge; cast; sick; cat; disgorge; regorge; retch; puke; barf; spew; spue; chuck; upchuck; honk; regurgitate; throw up
n.
- a bag provided on an airplane for passengers who are suffering from airsickness and need to vomit; sickbag
n.
- the daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick; sick parade
n.
- a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men; migraine; megrim; hemicrania
- a headache accompanied by nausea
n.
- a leave of absence from work because of illness
- In England on sick leave in 1834, he was made an LL.D.
- Izard himself asked for sick leave and tendered his resignation, which was refused.
- He also participated in the Kentucky Campaign that autumn, and then took a brief sick leave.
n.
- the daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick; sick call
E.g.
- This misuse is from late arrivals, leaving early, long lunch breaks, inappropriate sick days etc.
- It also has been found to decrease sick days, raise physical activity levels, and enhance cognitive functioning.
- Employers must now keep a payroll and provide workers with written notifications regarding sick days, vacation days, and work schedules.
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- Later in the summer he became sick with typhus.
- During the operation, Yeo was among the many British who became sick.
- The filly became sick soon after the race and died from an intestinal tumour.
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- The law requires that companies with 11 or more employees give workers up to 40 hours of paid sick time a year, while smaller companies may offer it unpaid.
- Liberationists were successful in their demands concerning abortion in Denmark, as the law which previously gave limited access, changed in 1973 granting free service on demand with paid sick leave.
- Additionally, Franklin Area School District teachers receive a defined benefit pension, health insurance, professional development reimbursement, paid personal days, 15 paid sick days and many other benefits.
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- Father Halley is very sick with multiple sclerosis.
- I've been very sick for months without any medicine...
- She becomes very sick and stays in bed for several months.
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- The sick and wounded reached 40,000 to 50,000.
- to sick and wounded warriors in time of war .
- The logo design was taken from certificates used in World War I for sick and wounded veterans.
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- Most sick people turn to local healers, and used folk remedies.
- Miracles were reported on his grave : severely sick people were cured.
- These are sick people."
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- On 23 August 634, Abu Bakr fell sick and did not recover.
- On one occasion, when he fell sick at work, his wife came to visit him.
- In the end of 1621, 70 year old Job fell sick and died on 29 December 1621.
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- hospitals for sick children.
- For example, he visited sick children at the Children's Hospital of New Orleans.
- In Brittany she is widely revered as a patron saint of sick children and those whose birth is overdue.
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- But I never got sick, because I was so tense during the filming."
- Jones noted: I started making a second solo record, then got sick of it.
- Renaldo reports that the soldiers got sick and began to execute everyone.
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- Additionally, Franklin Area School District teachers receive a defined benefit pension, health insurance, professional development reimbursement, paid personal days, 15 paid sick days and many other benefits.
- Additionally, the teachers receive a defined benefit pension, health insurance, life insurance, paid bereavement days off, professional development reimbursement, 3 paid personal days, 10 paid sick days, and other benefits.
- In addition to a defined benefit pension, health insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, professional development reimbursement, 10 paid sick days which accumulate, 2 paid personal days, 1 paid emergency leave day and a variety of other benefits.
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- “I’m a sick man and my career has suffered.
- He wrote, "It is better to cure a sick man than to kill him."
- Longford had successfully argued that to keep a sick man in jail was an "indefensible cruelty".