intransitive. To be or fall ill, to sicken.

To suffer illness; to fall ill, sicken. Obsolete.

intransitive. To become affected with illness, to fall ill or sick. Also const. of or with.

intransitive. To fall ill; to be ill or sick.

intransitive. To grow sickly or unhealthy; to waste away. Cf. like, v.1 17. Obsolete.

intransitive. With with or †of. To become ill with a specified disease. Cf. to fall ill at sense 45a(b), to fall down 2b at phrasal verbs 1. Now ar…

An attack of illness, disease, or some other affliction; a seizure of the body or mind. Esp. in to take a conceit: to become affected by illness or…

intransitive. To become ill. Now usually with with (formerly also †into, †in), specifying the illness or disease. Also with adjectival complement, as…

To cause to keep indoors or in bed through illness; often in passive to be (taken) ill, to keep one's bed. In recent colloquial use also intransitive…

transferred and figurative. A distemper, plague. to run of (or on) a garget: to become diseased.

intransitive. To become infirm or diseased. rare.

intransitive. To become an invalid or unfit for active work through illness; of a soldier or a sailor: To go on the sick-list; to leave the…

intransitive. To break down in health.

To break down in regard to vital energy, from exhaustion or disease.

Suffering from illness of any kind; ill, unwell, ailing. Also, to go sick, to become ill, to report sick.

to sicken for: to be in the early stages of (a disease which is not yet manifest); to be ‘coming down’ with.