Sickness
//ˈsɪknɪs//
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Noun
The word "sickness" can be used as a noun.
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African horse sickness African sleeping sickness Jamaican vomiting sickness Numinbah horse sickness Picardy sweating sickness acute mountain sickness altitude sickness bleeding sickness bottle-sickness bush sickness car sickness claw sickness covering sickness dative sickness decompression sickness dope sickness falling sickness falling-sickness ghost sickness grass sickness green sickness green tobacco sickness green-sickness home-sickness homesickness horse sickness hurry sickness in sickness and in health irradiation sickness junk sickness lame sickness land sickness laughing sickness milk sickness morning sickness motion sickness mountain sickness nail sickness needle sickness ozone sickness pregnancy sickness princess sickness radiation sickness railroad sickness sea-sickness serum sickness sickness unto death simulator sickness sleeping sickness sleepy sickness space sickness stiff sickness sugar sickness summoning sickness sweating sickness swing sickness three day sickness three-day sickness train sickness travel sickness wasting sickness water sickness western duck sickness
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analogical any any disease bad being being ill body body problem disease disease illness diseased feeling feeling bad feeling ill grammatical case health hospital hospitals ill illness kick marked misuse nausea nurses nurses tend people problem qualmishness sick symptoms tend throwing throwing up unwell up
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