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Words nearby sickersick day, sick-dog, sicken, sickener, sickening, sicker, Sickert, sick headache, sickie, sick in bed, sickish Definition for sicker (2 of 2)[ sik-er ] / ˈsɪk ər /
adjectivesafe from danger; secure. dependable; trustworthy. adverbcertainly; without doubt. Origin of sicker2before 900; Middle English siker,Old English sicor; cognate with Dutch zeker,German sicher, all ≪ Latin sēcūrus;see secure Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sickerAmericans are sicker and taking more pills than ever, and our doctors are miserable. Clinton Doc: This Is How We’ll Fix Health Care|Daniela Drake|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST The new insurance system relies on young, healthy consumers to help share the risk with older, sicker ones. How Low Will Health Care Enrollments Be? Here’s What to Watch For|Charles Ornstein|November 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST Putting younger workers in the same plans forces them to subsidize the sicker and older. How Could the GOP Have Improved Obamacare?|Megan McArdle|May 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST And, as predicted by numerous professionals, they are sicker and more dangerous than when they went behind bars. Why I Fear the Aryan Brotherhood—and You Should, Too|Anonymous|April 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
First is this: the vaguer the dispatches, the sicker the patient. Bob Dole & George H.W. Bush Hospitalized: How to Interpret Illness of Public Figures|Kent Sepkowitz|November 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST The more I thought of it, the sicker I became, and now what was I to do? From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It|John Peele She made a rapid calculation in her mind at the moment, and her heart grew sicker and sicker. Madonna Mary|Mrs. Oliphant Ah, well, they will be sicker than I at the end of the affair. The Jacket (The Star-Rover)|Jack London And waited, ever with a sicker restlessness, a more unendurable longing. August First|Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray On the other hand, if the weather were bad and the sea rough, a sicker lot of people nowhere might be found. The Panama Canal|Frederic Jennings Haskin
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