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sick vs ill

sick

Definitions

adjective

  1. deeply affected by a strong feeling
  2. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  3. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
  4. having a strong distaste from surfeit
  5. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
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verb

  1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

noun

  1. people who are sick

Examples

A few people were crying, and one girl was very sick and puking, but most people tried to stay calm.

Patients with primary infection tend to be clinically ‘sicker’ than those who are reinfected.

So the girl was out of bondage, but Cadwaladr, sick with humiliation and rage, must come under guard to be handed over for a price to the brother who discarded and misprized him.

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ill

Definitions

adjective

  1. indicating hostility or enmity
  2. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
  3. presaging ill fortune
  4. distressing
  5. resulting in suffering or adversity

adverb

  1. (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
  2. unfavorably or with disapproval
  3. with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly

noun

  1. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Examples

The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.

It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.

When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.

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