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sick
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 4
- Starts with
- S
- Ends with
- K
- Contains
- IC
- Scrabble score
- 10
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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adjective
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
“ghastly wounds”
adjective
deeply affected by a strong feeling
“sat completely still, sick with envy”
adjective
having a strong distaste from surfeit
“grew more and more disgusted”
adjective
affected with madness or insanity
“a man who had gone mad”
adjective
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
“the pale light of a half moon”
adjective
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
“ill from the monotony of his suffering”
adjective
feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
noun
people who are sick
“they devote their lives to caring for the sick”
verb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
“After drinking too much, the students vomited”
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Example Sentences
ghastly wounds
the grim aftermath of the bombing
the grim task of burying the victims
a grisly murder
gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
sat completely still, sick with envy
she was sick with longing
grew more and more disgusted
fed up with their complaints
sick of it all
sick to death of flattery
gossip that makes one sick
a man who had gone mad
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
ill from the monotony of his suffering
they devote their lives to caring for the sick
After drinking too much, the students vomited
He purged continuously
The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
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