SICKING

SIC

sic, set

(verb) urge to attack someone; “The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders”; “the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

sicking

present participle of sick

Source: Wiktionary


SICK

Sick, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] Etym: [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seĂłc; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]

1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.

4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.

– Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.

– Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.

– Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.

– Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.

– Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.

Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

Syn.

– Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick, n.

Definition: Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sick, v. i.

Definition: To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

29 December 2024

CHRONIC

(adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering; “chronic indigestion”; “a chronic shortage of funds”; “a chronic invalid”


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