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sick and tired
Variant of sick
sick
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sick (sik)
adjective
- suffering from disease or illness; unwell; ill: in this sense, now rare or literary in England
- having nausea; vomiting or about to vomit: the predominant sense in England
- characteristic of or accompanying sickness a sick expression
- of or for sick people sick leave
- deeply disturbed or distressed; extremely upset, as by grief, disappointment, disgust, failure, etc.
- disgusted by reason of excess; annoyed or exasperated: usually with of sick of such excusesoften sick and tired
- in poor condition; impaired; unsound
- having a great longing or nostalgia (for) sick for the hills
- of sickly color; pale
- having a discharge of the menses; menstruating
- mentally ill or emotionally disturbed
- Informal sadistic, morbid, or abnormally unwholesome a sick joke
- ☆ Agric.
- incapable of producing an adequate yield of a certain crop wheatsick soil
- infested with harmful microorganisms a sick field
Etymology: ME sik, seke < OE seoc, akin to Ger siech < IE base *seug-, to be troubled or grieved > Arm hiucanim, (I) am weakening
sick Idioms
the sick
sick or ill people collectively
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