sick
Affected by physical illness or disease. / Feeling nausea or an urge to vomit. / Mentally disturbed or morbid in a disturbing way. / Impressive, excellent, or highly skilled (slang). / To set a dog on someone to attack.
AdjectiveTransitive Verb
past: sickedpp: sickeding: sicking
The word carries a heavy duality between biological distress and psychological deviation. In a medical sense, it describes a state of dysfunction or fragility, ranging from a mild cold to chronic illness. It often implies a need for care or a temporary removal from social duties.
In social or slang contexts, the meaning flips entirely. It can describe something macabre and twisted, creating a feeling of repulsion, or it can function as a high compliment in youth culture, where the discomfort of the original meaning is repurposed to describe something so extreme it is impressive.
Meanings
Phrasal Verbs
sick up
to vomit
The baby sicked up some of his formula.