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Definition of Be sick
1. Verb. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth. "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
Generic synonyms: Egest, Eliminate, Excrete, Pass
Derivative terms: Disgorgement, Puke, Puking, Regurgitation, Retch, Sick, Spewer, Vomit, Vomit, Vomit, Vomiter, Vomiting
Antonyms: Keep Down
Definition of Be sick
1. Verb. (&lit be sick) ¹
2. Verb. (informal) to vomit ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Be Sick
Literary usage of Be sick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"parish be visited, and what persons be sick, and of what diseases, as near as
they can inform themselves, and, upon doubt in that case, to command restraint ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"A thing familiar in China (saith Ric- cius the Jesuit), M" [f it be told them
they shall be sick on such a day, when that day comes they will surely be sick ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"... I think I am about to be sick> ... I want to be sick; CONDITIONAL FORMS. ...
I may be sick; iwa'wa ka'kai-tst, we may be sick. ..."
4. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott (1884)
"... neglecting or refusing to be paid to the guardians or overseers aforesaid,
where such poor person or persons happened to be sick or to die as aforesaid. ..."
5. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"repented the operation; though it has been very troublesome to some fools, who
had rather be sick by the doctor's prescriptions, ..."
6. Crabb's English Synonyms by George. Crabb (1917)
"permanent state, of the body, a prone- ness to be sick: he who is sick may be
made well; but he who is sickly dom really well: all persons are liable to be ..."
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