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disgusted, revolted, repulsed, offended, repelled, nauseated;
annoyed, chagrined, irritated: She was sick at what she saw in
the army field hospital. The way you do things sometimes makes
me sick. 7 Sometimes, sick of. (sick and) tired, bored, weary,
Colloq fed up with: Don't you get sick of telling them the same
thing so many times?
sicken v. 1 fall ill, take sick, contract, be stricken by, come down
with or catch something or a bug, fail, weaken: After he seemed
to be recovering so well, he suddenly sickened and died. 2 make
ill or sick, afflict, affect, disgust, nauseate, turn one's
stomach, upset, appal, shock, repel, revolt, repulse, offend,
make one's gorge rise; put out: The scene in the abattoir
sickened me.
sickly adj. 1 See sick, 2, above. 2 ailing, feeble, delicate, wan,
weak, pallid, pale, drawn, peaked, peaky, peakish: Jennie looks
sickly and must build up her resistance. 3 mushy, mawkish,
maudlin, cloying, insipid, weak, watery: The sickly
sentimentality of the episode about the boy and his lost puppy
was unbearable.
side n. 1 Sometimes, sides. flank(s), edge(s), verge, margin(s),
rim, brim, brink, border(s); bank; boundary or boundaries,
perimeter, periphery, limit(s): This side of the road is in
West Sussex, the other in East Sussex. The sides of the
swimming-pool are tiled. 2 surface, face, plane; facet: The
smallest possible number of sides of a pyramid is four. 3
faction, interest, party, part, sect, camp, (point of) view,
viewpoint, aspect, opinion, standpoint, stand, cause, angle,
position, attitude, school, philosophy: Which side do you
support in the controversy? 4 team; string, squad; American
football and Association Football or Soccer and Cricket eleven,
Australian Rules football eighteen, Baseball nine, Basketball
five, Gaelic football and Rugby Union fifteen, Rugby League
thirteen: Whichever side Craig is on seems likely to win. The
local side is now coming out onto the field. 5 affectation,
pretension, haughtiness, arrogance, insolence, pretentiousness,
airs: Chauncy puts on a bit too much side for my taste. 6 side
by side. together, jointly, cheek by jowl: These paintings
should not have been hung side by side. 7 take sides. show
preference, be partial, show favouritism: A judge must avoid
taking sides.