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sick
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?k, IPA(key): /s?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophones: sic, Sikh
Etymology 1
From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English s?oc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz (compare West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”); compare Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian ???????? (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).
Adjective
sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)
- (more common in the US) In poor health; ill.
- Synonyms: ill, not well, poorly, sickly, unwell
- Antonyms: fit, healthy, well
- Having an urge to vomit.
- Synonym: nauseated
- 1913, The Texas criminal reports, page 8:
- In the meantime the old man had gotten up and gone out in the yard and began to vomit. Henry said I believe I feel sick and got up and went out. He went out one door and his father went out the other one. I did not think there was anything wrong with the coffee and I asked my wife to pour this out […]
- 1918, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 140:
- Q. Didn't he complain he was sick before he commenced to vomit?
- A. He did, just before he said, to me, “I feel sick,” I asked him if he wanted to throw up and he said yes.
- 1958, Gene D'Olive, Chiara, Signet Book
- […] trying hard to cry. Crying's good. Crying teaches him to breathe. But I wish he weren't crying from hunger. I feel dizzy. I sit down and feel a little sick. Maybe I'll vomit, too. No, I never vomit. I feel sick, but I won't vomit. I never vomit.
- 2013, Cheryl Rainfield, Stained, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (?ISBN), page 38:
- I feel sick, like I might vomit, and I'm more tired than I can ever remember feeling.
- (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- Synonyms: disturbed, twisted, warped
- (colloquial) In bad taste.
- Tired of or annoyed by something.
- (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
- Synonyms: rad, wicked
- Antonyms: crap, naff, uncool
- In poor condition.
- (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Synonyms
- (in poor health): See also Thesaurus:diseased
- (having an urge to vomit): See also Thesaurus:nauseated
- (slang: excellent): See also Thesaurus:excellent
Derived terms
Descendants
- ?? Navajo: sxih
Translations
Noun
sick (uncountable)
- (Britain, Australia, colloquial) Vomit.
- (Britain, colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated
Synonyms
- (vomit): See Thesaurus:vomit
Translations
Verb
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
- (colloquial) To vomit.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
- circa 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2:
- Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.
- circa 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2:
Etymology 2
Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek.
Verb
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
- (rare) Alternative spelling of sic
- 1920, James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
- "Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!"
- 1938, Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ?ISBN, page 125,
- When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
- "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
- 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman, University of Calgary Press, ?ISBN, page 82,
- Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.
- 1920, James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
Anagrams
- CKIs
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upset
English
Etymology
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- +? set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
Pronunciation
- Noun
- enPR: ?p?s?t, IPA(key): /??ps?t/
- Adjective, verb
- enPR: ?ps?t?, IPA(key): /?p?s?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Adjective
upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)
- (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
Synonyms
- (angry, distressed, unhappy): See angry, distressed and unhappy
- in a tizzy
Derived terms
- upset price
Translations
Noun
upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- An upset stomach.
- 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
- 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,?) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x?y, then y is in U.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
Synonyms
- (disturbance, disruption): disruption, disturbance
- (unexpected victory of a competitor):
Translations
Derived terms
- jet upset
Verb
upset (third-person singular simple present upsets, present participle upsetting, simple past and past participle upset)
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
- 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
- R. of Brunne
- with sail on mast upset
- R. of Brunne
- To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
Synonyms
- (make someone angry, distressed or unhappy): See anger, distress, forset, and sadden
- (disturb, disrupt, adversely alter): disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down
- (tip, overturn): invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down
Derived terms
- upset the applecart
- upset the natives
Translations
Anagrams
- TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, set up, set-up, setup, spute, stupe
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