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2.5.1Sick  

Definition

  • Use this domain for words describing a person who is sick.

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  • What words refer to being sick? be sick, be ill, not be well, be in a bad way, do poorly. What words refer to being sick with a disease? have (a disease), suffer from, be sick with, infected with, stricken with, have an attack of. What words refer to being a little sick? off color, under the weather, run down, not feel yourself, not be yourself. What words refer to being very sick? bedridden, decline, failing, life is ebbing, sinking (fast), seriously ill, critically ill, terminally ill, be fatal. What words refer to feeling sick? feel ill, not feel well, feel rough, feel funny, feel sick, feel sick to your stomach, groggy, feel faint. What words describe a person who is sick? ill, sick, unwell, infirm, look like death warmed over, unhealthy, ailing, diseased, incapacitated, indisposed, laid up. What words describe someone who is often sick? sickly, delicate, be in poor health, be prone to, hypochondriac. What words refer to becoming sick? get sick, become ill, fall ill, be taken ill, sicken, become sick, catch (a disease), come down with, contract. What words refer to a person who is sick? patient, sufferer, invalid, the sick. What words refer to a time when many people are sick from the same disease? epidemic, plague, outbreak, pestilence.

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  • 2.5.1

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https://w3id.org/MoRe-SFB1475/CT/concepts/1214504788

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