Sick: Definition and part of speech

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Sick

  1. v. i. To fall sick; to sicken.
  2. superl. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
  3. superl. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
  4. superl. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; — with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
  5. superl. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
  6. n. Sickness.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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