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Be sick   /bi sɪk/   Listen
Be sick

verb
1.
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Synonyms: barf, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up.  "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"






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"Be sick" Quotes from Famous Books



... I can't bear it about Dan'l! I don't mean about his going,—the old doctor is right about that, but oh, that wretched rover! Dan'l makes loyal excuses for him—he must be sick again or out of work or too busy; the flame of ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

... a peculiar fact about eating warm maple sugar, that though you may eat so much of it one day as to be sick, you will want it the next ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes

... she be sick of the Curious Impertinents. But a Curious Impertinent are not we—if ever there was one beneath the skies, a devout worshipper of Nature; and though we often seem to heed not her shrine—it stands in our imagination, like a temple in ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... his table, and of Mrs. McComas, who had taken quite a young-motherly fancy to him; and the amount that he ate was so much at variance with his usual hearty appetite that even the maid who waited on his table, a tall, gangling girl with a vinegar face and a kind heart, worried for fear he might be sick, and added unordered delicacies to his American plan meal. He went over to Hollis Creek in the swiftest conveyance he could obtain, which was naturally an auto, but he did not have 'Ennery for his chauffeur, of which ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester

... won't the man be sick when he sees you coming back with us, and hears us call you Lord Mohunsleigh?—for if you'll point him out in time, that's what I shall call you, right under his nose. You see, this is a private beach. We all subscribe for our bath houses; but you'll be our guest, of course, and I'll put Mr. Pitchley's ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson


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