Usually means: Experience illness or poor health.
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  1. be sick: Merriam-Webster
  2. be sick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. be sick: Vocabulary.com
  4. be sick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. be sick: Wiktionary
  6. be sick: Dictionary.com
  7. be sick: Rhymezone
  8. be sick: FreeDictionary.org
  9. be sick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. be sick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. be sick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. be sick: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (be sick)

▸ verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: be sick.
▸ verb:  (informal) To vomit.

Similar:
throw up, spew, cast, spue, disgorge, regurgitate, upchuck, vomit, regorge, retch, more...

Opposite:
healthy, well, fit, in good health

Phrases:
be worried sick, pretend to be sick, to be sick, be in need of a sick day, more...

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Similar:
throw up, spew, cast, spue, disgorge, regurgitate, upchuck, vomit, regorge, retch, more...

Opposite:
healthy, well, fit, in good health

Phrases:
be worried sick, pretend to be sick, to be sick, be in need of a sick day, more...



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