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You can make 11 words from sick according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of sick

sick isck scik csik icsk cisk sikc iskc skic ksic iksc kisc scki cski skci ksci cksi kcsi icks ciks ikcs kics ckis kcis

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sick. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sick.

Definitions and meaning of sick

sick

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭk, IPA^(key): /sɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophones: sic, Sikh

Etymology 1

From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”).

See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).

Adjective

sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)

1. (less common in the UK) In poor health; ill.

   Synonyms: ill, not well, poorly, sickly, unwell

   Antonyms: fit, healthy, well

2. Having an urge to vomit.

   My daughter was violently sick three times in the night.

   Synonym: nauseated
3. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.

   Synonyms: disturbed, twisted, warped

4. (colloquial) In bad taste.

5. Tired of or annoyed by something.
6. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.

   Synonyms: rad, wicked

   Antonyms: crap, naff, uncool

7. In poor condition.

8. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

Synonyms

• (in poor health): See also Thesaurus:diseased
• (having an urge to vomit): See also Thesaurus:nauseated
• (slang: excellent): See also Thesaurus:excellent

Derived terms

Descendants

• →? Navajo: sxih

Translations

Noun

sick (uncountable)

1. (UK, Australia, colloquial) Vomit.
2. (UK, colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.

Synonyms

• (vomit): See Thesaurus:vomit

Derived terms

• (ill): sickie a day of sick leave, often implying some level of deceit as in "throw a sickie" - take a day's sick leave for some other purpose. go down like a cup of cold sick / go down like a cup of sick

Translations

Verb

sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

1. (UK, Australia, colloquial) To vomit.

2. (obsolete except in dialect, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.

Derived terms

• sick up

Etymology 2

Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek.

Verb

sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”)
   • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,

     "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."

   • 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman, University of Calgary Press, →ISBN, page 82,

     Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.

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