Sick | Mean of sick in English Dictionary

/ˈsɪk/

• affected with a disease or illness
1. He is at home sick in bed.
2. She is sick with the flu.
3. I'm too sick to go to work.
4. a sick dog
5. The medicine just made me sicker.
6. The sickest patients are in intensive care.
7. My poor rosebush looks sick.
8. (US) I hardly ever get sick.
9. (US) She has been out sick all week. = (Brit) She has been off sick all week. [=she has not been at work all week because she is sick]
10. (formal) Dozens of workers fell sick [=became ill] from exposure to the fumes.
11. (old-fashioned) He took sick [=became ill] and died.
12. (informal) He was (as) sick as a dog. [=he was very sick]
13. a sick economy
• of or relating to people who are ill
1. She has been on the sick list all week.
2. the hospital's sick ward
• very annoyed or bored by something because you have had too much of it
1. He was sick of her lies.
2. I'm getting sick of this cold weather.
3. I'm sick of pizza—I had it three times this week already.
4. What are you most sick of?
5. I'm sick and tired of hearing you two argue. = I'm sick to death of hearing you two argue.

• very disgusted or angry
1. The way they treat people makes me sick.
• not mentally normal or healthy
1. I know it sounds sick, but I like reading about murders.
2. He has a sick [=perverted] mind.
3. sick [=morbid, disturbing] thoughts
• relating to very unpleasant or offensive things
1. sick jokes/humor
• very unpleasant
1. I had a sick feeling that we were hopelessly lost.
• powerfully affected by a strong and unpleasant emotion
1. She was sick with shame/fear/longing/guilt.
2. We have been sick with worry about her. = We've been worried sick [=very worried] about her.
• to vomit
1. I was sick [=vomited, threw up] several times.
2. The last time I ate oysters, I was violently sick. [=I vomited a lot]
3. Stop the car—I'm going to be sick. [=I'm going to throw up]
• to feel ill
1. I was feeling sick, so I went home early.
• to feel like you will vomit
1. After eating a whole plate of cookies, I felt sick.
• to feel very upset
1. I feel sick about what happened.
• caused to vomit
1. I was sick to my stomach [=I vomited] last night.
2. When I had the flu, just the thought of eating made me sick to my stomach. [=nauseous]
• feeling very disgusted or angry
1. The way they treat people makes me sick to my stomach.
• people who are sick
1. She spent her life caring for the sick and dying.
• Verb
• to vomit (something)
1. He sicked up [=threw up] his dinner.