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sick and tired of someone Definition


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sick
adj
    1. Vomiting; feeling the need to vomit.
    2. Ill; unwell.
      Thesaurus: ill, ailing, indisposed, infirm, invalid, feeble, weak, laid up, bedridden, under the weather; Antonym: healthy, well.
    3. Referring or relating to ill health.
      Example: sick pay
    4. Pining or longing for them or it.
      Form: sick for someone (often)
      Form: sick for something
    5. Extremely annoyed; disgusted.
      Example: I'm sick of your attitude
      Form: sick at someone or something (often)
      Form: sick of someone or something
    6. Thoroughly weary or fed up with them or it.
      Thesaurus: satiated, bored, fed up, sick and tired.
      Form: sick of someone (often)
      Form: sick of something
    7. Mentally deranged.
    8. Said of humour, comedy, jokes, etc: exploiting gruesome and morbid subjects in an unpleasant way.
    9. colloq
      Inadequate in comparison.
      Example: makes my effort look a bit sick
    10. Out of working order.
noun
    1. colloq
      Vomit.
verb
    tr & intr
    sicked, sicking
    1. To vomit.
      Form: sick up (usually)
Idiom: make someone sick
    colloq
    To disgust or upset them.
      Example: It makes me sick to think that no one offered to help
Idiom: sick and tired of someone or something (sick of the sight of someone or something, sick to death of someone or something)
    To be extremely weary of them.
Idiom: sick as a dog
    colloq
    Vomiting excessively and unrestrainedly.
Idiom: sick as a parrot
    colloq
    Extremely disappointed.
Idiom: sick to one's stomach
    Nauseated; about to vomit.
    Upset; disgusted.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon seoc.



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