Sick

We have to care for the sick.

Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

She was sick all day with the flu.

sick with a cold—sick with contagious diseases—sick with sciatica—sick with love—sick with worry

My daughter was violently sick three times in the night.

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 […]

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.

[…] 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.

I feel sick, like I might vomit, and I'm more tired than I can ever remember feeling.

You sick bastard!

What a sick, sick feeling / To let you go, my dear

That’s a sick joke.

sick and tired of the whining—sick of waiting—'sick of politics

I’ve heard that song on the radio so many times that I’m starting to get sick of it.

I’m so sick of that same old love, the kind that breaks your heart.

This tune is sick.

He showed off his sick surfing skills.

Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!

sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick

[…] they're spitting and belching chunks of lentilly gunk. Looks like sick.

The bogan, true to form, laps it up like a dog does its own sick.

I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.

Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.

Old man to pickney, so wave unno hand if you with me /To see the sufferation sick me.

"Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!"

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.