sick

Universal Words adjective, noun, verb adjective ill 1 physically or mentally ill: a sick child / relative / bird * Her mother's very sick. * Peter has been off sick (= away from work because he is ill) for two weeks. * Emma has just called in sick (= telephoned to say she will not be coming to work because she is ill). * Britain's workers went sick (= did not go to work because they were ill) for a record number of days last year. * (AmE) I can't afford to get sick (= become ill). wanting to vomit 2 [notusuallybeforenoun] (especially BrE) feeling that you want to VOMIT: If you eat any more cake you'll make yourself sick. * a sick feeling in your stomach -sick 3 (in compounds) feeling sick as a result of travelling on a ship, plane, etc: seasick * airsick * carsick * travel-sick bored 4 ~ of sb/sth