SICK

• (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", "He purged continuously", "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

  synonyms : barf , be sick , cast , cat , chuck , disgorge , honk , puke , purge , regorge , regurgitate , retch , spew , spue , throw up , upchuck , vomit , vomit up

• (adj.) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

  "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

  synonyms : ill

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : ghastly , grim , grisly , gruesome , macabre

  The scene of crime was a macabre sight to behold. -added by naila_inlas

  The jurors saw grisly photos of the crime scene. -added by nithi

  The police report described the scene in gruesome detail. -added by nithi

  
  -tagged by Administrator
  A rather ghastly looking skeleton of a fish

• (adj.) deeply affected by a strong feeling

  "sat completely still, sick with envy", "she was sick with longing"

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : disgusted , fed up , sick of , tired of

• (adj.) affected with madness or insanity

  "a man who had gone mad"

  synonyms : brainsick , crazy , demented , disturbed , mad , unbalanced , unhinged

• (adj.) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

  "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", "the wan light of dawn"

  synonyms : pale , pallid , wan

  The round but pallid moon made the night look more gloomy. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

  synonyms : nauseated , nauseous , queasy , sickish

  She began to feel queasy as the sea got rougher. -added by naila_inlas

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