1. (

• sick

) people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick" ;

1. (

• vomit ,
• vomit_up ,
• purge ,
• cast ,
• sick ,
• cat ,
• be_sick ,
• disgorge ,
• regorge ,
• retch ,
• puke ,
• barf ,
• spew ,
• spue ,
• chuck ,
• upchuck ,
• honk ,
• regurgitate ,
• throw_up

) 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" ;

1. (

• ill ,
• sick ,

) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" ;

2. (

• nauseated ,
• nauseous ,
• queasy ,
• sick ,
• sickish

) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit ;

3. (

• brainsick ,
• crazy ,
• demented ,
• disturbed ,
• mad ,
• sick ,
• unbalanced ,
• unhinged

) affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" ;

4. (

• disgusted ,
• fed_up ,
• sick ,
• sick_of ,
• tired_of

) 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" ;

5. (

• pale ,
• pallid ,
• wan ,
• sick

) (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" ;

6. (

• sick

) deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing" ;

7. (

• ghastly ,
• grim ,
• grisly ,
• gruesome ,
• macabre ,
• sick

) 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" ;