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sick to one's stomach

sick to one's stomach adjective: nauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.

Adjective

sick to one's stomach (comparative more sick to one's stomach, superlative most sick to one's stomach)

  1. (US) Nauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.
    • [H]e had torn the paper from one of his cigarettes and was chewing the tobacco. This was his last resort, an expedient which he fell back upon only in great extremity, as it invariably made him sick to his stomach.1914, Frank Norris, chapter 17, in Vandover and the Brute
    • You don't know how sick you make me / You make me fucking sick to my stomach / Every time I think of you I puke2004, “Puke”, in Encore, performed by Eminem

Forms of sick to one's stomach

comparativemore sick to one's stomach
superlativemost sick to one's stomach

Questions about sick to one's stomach

What does sick to one's stomach mean?
Sick to one's stomach means nauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.
What part of speech is sick to one's stomach?
Sick to one's stomach is an adjective.

Words near sick to one's stomach in the dictionary

  1. sick puppies
  2. sick puppy
  3. sick sack
  4. sick sacks
  5. sick sinus syndrome
  6. sick to one's stomach
  7. sick to the back teeth
  8. sick unto death
  9. sick up
  10. sick-abed
  11. sick-abeds

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