BE SICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does be sick mean? 

• BE SICK (verb)
  The verb BE SICK has 1 sense:

1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

  Familiarity information: BE SICK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BE SICK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

regorge; vomit up; vomit; upchuck; throw up; spue; spew; sick; retch; regurgitate; barf; purge; puke; honk; disgorge; chuck; cat; cast; be sick

Context example:

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Hypernyms (to "be sick" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

If she had to be sick, she had the very best year for having those surgeries, for in 2019 she had Jupiter’s protection.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Beth won't be sick long, and Hannah knows just what to do, and Mother said we were to mind her, so I suppose we must, but it doesn't seem quite right to me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the context of faces under LPS light, things looked so strange, the brain conjured up an explanation: the actor must be sick, according to the researchers.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

I must really congratulate your ladyship, said she, on the play being chosen; for though you have borne it with exemplary patience, I am sure you must be sick of all our noise and difficulties.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am not saying you will be sick, but I am recommending that you shore yourself up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Oh, Beth, if you should be sick I never could forgive myself! What shall we do?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You don't want to be sick, do you?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Me likes to be sick.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)