be sick

Questions about be sick

What does be sick mean?

be sick means "eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth".

What is another word for be sick?

Close synonyms include vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is be sick a common word?

be sick is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.