Crossword clues for sicker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]
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Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.
--Mark i. 30.Behold them that are sick with famine.
--Jer. xiv. 18. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
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Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
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Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
--Fuller.Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.
Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.
Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.
Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.
Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.
Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.
Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]
Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
Sicker \Sick"er\, v. i. [AS. sicerian.] (Mining) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
Sicker \Sick"er\, Siker \Sik"er\, a. [OE. siker; cf. OS. sikur,
LG. seker, D. zeker, Dan. sikker, OHG. sihhur, G. sicher; all
fr. L. securus. See Secure, Sure.]
Sure; certain; trusty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
--Burns.
When he is siker of his good name.
--Chaucer.
Sicker \Sick"er\, Siker \Sik"er\, adv. Surely; certainly. [Obs.]
Believe this as siker as your creed.
--Chaucer.
Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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(en-comparative of: sick) Etymology 2
a. 1 (context obsolete outside dialects English) certain 2 (context obsolete outside dialects English) secure adv. 1 (context obsolete outside dialects English) certainly 2 (context obsolete outside dialects English) securely alt. 1 (context obsolete outside dialects English) certain 2 (context obsolete outside dialects English) secure Etymology 3
alt. (context mining UK dialect English) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. v
(context mining UK dialect English) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
Usage examples of "sicker".
He had had to excuse himself and rushed out and was violently sick, sicker than he had even been in his life, sicker than when he discovered that he had caught it, or after he found Hana dead.
So many years of worry about Ben, so many visits to the doctor, so many months of seeing him get sicker and sicker until she was afraid that he was going to die, and now everything was going to be all right.
I was getting sicker and sicker every day, so Mum had to save all our money to take me to the expensive doctor so she could fix me up instead.
Mr Peevie, one of the very sickerest of all the former sederunts, came to me next morning, in a remonstrating disposition, to enquire what had come over me, and to tell me that every body was much surprised, and many thought it not right of me to break in upon ancient and wonted customs in such a sudden and unconcerted manner.