affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
<adj.all> ill from the monotony of his suffering
feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
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affected with madness or insanity
<adj.all> a man who had gone mad
having a strong distaste from surfeit
<adj.all> grew more and more disgusted fed up with their complaints sick of it all sick to death of flattery gossip that makes one sick tired of the noise and smoke
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
<adj.all> the pale light of a half moon a pale sun the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street a pallid sky the pale (or wan) stars the wan light of dawn
deeply affected by a strong feeling
<adj.all> sat completely still, sick with envy she was sick with longing
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
<adj.all> ghastly wounds the grim aftermath of the bombing the grim task of burying the victims a grisly murder gruesome evidence of human sacrifice macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages macabre tortures conceived by madmen
Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, 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.]
Sick \Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak.
The program in this city of 165,000 on the east side of San Francisco Bay also would help sick kids and subsidize poor parents for baby-sitting costs.
The number of people with AIDS will grow dramatically as those who were infected throughout the 1980s fall sick.
Negotiations were to continue today on sick leave and other points.
" Henderson often teamed up with David Elliott, another Alabama Guard pilot, but Elliott apparently was sick at the time of the flight, said his sister, Sharon Melson.
A Virgin Atlantic airline jumbo jet left London's Gatwick Airport today for Baghdad to rescue sick and elderly Britons, airline officials said.
Mrs. Magnuson said her husband began feeling sick Friday afternoon and was diagnosed as having suffered a "slight" heart attack Friday evening.
But a heart has to be rushed to an airport, flown to where the sick recipient is and sped to the bedside.
That would bolster the solvent institutions' ability to pay special insurance assessments or to acquire sick thrifts, the bill's supporters said.
The Walter Reed study was not the first to examine the so-called "sick building syndrome," but it covered a larger population over a longer time period, Klein said in a telephone interview Thursday.
"Bilateral trade has an impact on the small business community here," said Gary Luczak, a LaFalce spokesman who declined to identify who answered sick call. "Mr.
The mayor ordered 11 photographs in a Vietnam War exhibit that made some people "literally sick to their stomach" moved from City Hall lobbies to a less traveled corridor, an official said Friday.
The funds injected into the thrifts now will reduce the operating losses that regulators ultimately will have to subsidize when the sick thrifts are closed or sold.
The First Union-Southeast transaction is the most dramatic example to date of a new FDIC effort to speed the closure of sick banks in order to reduce the cost to the shrinking Bank Insurance Fund and minimize disruptions to borrowers.
Parishioners said the decision appears to contradict what the church recently asked parishes to emphasize _ ministry to the poor, sick and elderly.
This "Closeup" documentary tells the predictable tale of empty institutions and hard, bitter streets; of families who abandon their sick, and families who fruitlessly try to help them.
Bush said the videotaped beating of a black motorist by a group of Los Angeles police officers "made me sick," but refused to say whether he thought the city's police chief, Daryl Gates, should resign.
Meanwhile, a Superior Court judge delayed ruling on the city's request for contempt citations against 110 firefighters who called in sick over the weekend in defiance of a back-to-work order.
"The thought that tourists would find it amusing to see animals killed is a pretty sick one," said Katharine Thalberg, director of the Aspen Society for Animal Rights.
Mrs. Johanson, a Republican housewife and lifelong resident of this town of 6,700, 45 miles south of Providence, said the apparent dognapping is the work of a sick mind rather than a political foe. Rumors have sprung up nevertheless.
It's a sick old forest.
Maybe it's the macho image they're supposed to have," says Beverly Ritter, who took care of her sick daughter and now coordinates a mothers' group in New York City.
The Resolution Trust Corp., the agency created under the thrift-bailout legislation signed into law this month, said it will begin negotiating immediately with bidders seeking to acquire five of the nation's biggest sick thrifts.
Ms. Scott claimed Tuesday night that mothers were denied proper medical help for their sick babies at Styal women's prison in Cheshire in northwest England, where she was jailed.
When Johnny Sylvester's father wanted a second opinion about his sick boy, he consulted Babe Ruth.
Li Hongjun, 34, said she was applying for a job with a Beijing wine company because it has night shifts, allowing her to care for a sick sister during the day.
First, they improved care of the sick.
On the other hand, they couldn't tell me if I would ever get sick," she testified, saying that in the early 1980s little was known about the risks to health-care workers.
"There's an enormous fear about spiraling health-insurance costs, and employers don't want to hire people who may get sick and not be able to perform," she says.
Most depositors are likely to see the rates paid by S&Ls decline over the coming weeks and months, as the government pumps cash into the sick thrifts paying the highest rates to attract cash.
"We're sick and tired of accepting other peoples' garbage," complains Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh.