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say it: sik
sick is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function". It is pronounced /ˈsɪk/ — sik. It carries 9 recorded senses.
having a strong distaste from surfeit
“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”
deeply affected by a strong feeling
“sat completely still, sick with envy”
“she was sick with longing”
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
“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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.