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单词 sickliness
释义

sick1 /sik/

adjective
  1. Unwell, ill
  2. Diseased
  3. Astonishing, extraordinary (slang)
  4. Vomiting or inclined to vomit
  5. Pining
  6. Mortified
  7. Disgusted
  8. Thoroughly wearied
  9. Out of condition
  10. Sickly
  11. Of or for people who are ill
  12. (of humour, comedy, a joke, etc) gruesome, macabre, tending to exploit topics not normally joked about, such as illness, death, etc
  13. Disappointed (informal)
  14. Excellent (slang)
intransitive verb (Shakespeare)

To grow sick

transitive verb (informal)

To vomit (with up)

noun (informal)

Vomited matter

ORIGIN: OE sēoc; Ger siech, Du ziek

sickˈen transitive verb

  1. To make sick
  2. To disgust
  3. To make weary of anything
intransitive verb
  1. To become sick
  2. To be disgusted (with at)
  3. To become disgusting or tedious
  4. To become weakened

sickˈener noun

  1. Something that provokes nausea, disgust, etc
  2. A poisonous toadstool (Russula emetica)

sickˈening noun and adjective

sickˈeningly adverb

sickˈie noun (informal)

  1. A day's sick leave (orig Aust and NZ)
  2. A sick person, whether mentally or physically (N American)

sickˈish adjective

sickˈishly adverb

sickˈishness noun

sickˈlied adjective

sickˈlily adverb

sickˈliness noun

sickˈly adjective

  1. Inclined to be ailing
  2. Feeble
  3. Languid
  4. Pallid
  5. Suggestive of sickness
  6. Slightly or insipidly sickening
  7. Mawkish
  8. Of sickness or the sick
adverb
  1. In a sick manner
  2. Feebly
transitive verb (obsolete)
  1. To make sickly-looking, impart an unhealthy hue to
  2. To make sentimental or mawkish

sickˈness noun

sickˈo noun (pl sickˈos) (chiefly N American)

  1. A mentally ill person
  2. A crazy or deranged person
  3. A pervert
adjective
  1. Perverted
  2. Macabre

sick bag noun

A small paper bag, provided for each passenger on an aircraft, which may be used by those suffering from travel sickness to vomit into

sick bay noun

  1. A compartment for sick and wounded on a ship (also sick berth)
  2. An infirmary or sanatorium at a boarding school, etc

sickˈbed noun

A bed on which someone lies sick

sick benefit or sickness benefit noun

A benefit paid to someone who is out of work through illness

sick building syndrome noun

A set of symptoms, such as headaches, dizziness and general fatigue, experienced by occupants of buildings which have inadequate ventilation or air-conditioning

sickˈ-fallen adjective (archaic)

Struck with sickness

sick-feathˈered adjective

(of birds) with immature feathers at moulting

sick flag noun

A quarantine flag

sick headache noun

A headache with nausea

sick leave noun

Leave of absence owing to sickness

sick list noun

A list of the sick

sickˈ-listed adjective

Entered on the sick list

sickˈ-making adjective (informal)

Sickening

sick note noun (informal)

In Britain, a note (signed either by the employee or the employee's doctor) given to an employer to certify that absence from work was due to illness

sickˈnurse noun (old)

A nurse who attends the sick

sickˈnursˈing noun

sickˈ-out noun (N American and W Indies)

A form of industrial action in which all workers at a particular factory, workplace, etc, absent themselves simultaneously on the pretext of sickness

sickˈroom or (old) sick chamber noun

A room to which one is confined by sickness

sick-thoughtˈed adjective (Shakespeare)

Lovesick

sick-tiredˈ adjective

be sick

  1. To vomit
  2. To be ill

look sick (informal)

To appear inadequate in comparison

sick (and tired or to death) of

  1. Tired of
  2. Wearied to the point of disgust by

sick as a dog (informal)

Vomiting profusely and unrestrainedly

sick as a parrot (informal)

Extremely disappointed

sicken for

To show early symptoms of

sick to one's stomach

  1. About to vomit
  2. Disgusted

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