sicc

Adjective

sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)

1. In poor health; ill.
   • We have to care for the sick.

   Synonyms:

   ill, not well, poorly, sickly, unwell, diseased, disease-ridden, infect, infected, morbid

   Antonyms:

   fit, healthy, well

   1. [with with] Afflicted by (a specific condition, usually medical).
      • She was sick all day with the flu.
2. Having an urge to vomit.
   • My daughter was violently sick three times in the night.

   Synonyms:

   nauseated, barfy, mawkish, nauseatic, pukey, pukish, queasy, sick to one's stomach, vomity

3. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
   • You sick bastard!

   Synonyms:

   disturbed, twisted, warped

4. (colloquial) In bad taste.
   • That’s a sick joke.
5. [with of] Tired of or annoyed by (something that has lasted a long time or often recurs).
   • sick and tired of the whining—sick of waiting—'sick of politics

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Verb (1)

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

1. To mark with a bracketed sic.
   • The fact is, of course, that the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates, but he must find something to say and above all make a slow of purism.1887 May 7, E. Belfort Bax, “On Some Forms of Modern Cant”, in Commonweal

Verb (2)

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

1. (transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
   • He sicced his dog on me!
2. (transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.
   • Sic ’em, Mitzi.

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