[s_ˈɪ_k_n_ə_s], [sˈɪknəs], [sˈɪknəs]
Definitions of sickness
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impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
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the state that precedes vomiting
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The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
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Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
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1. Disease. 2. Nausea.
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State of being sick.
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State of being sick; illness; a disease or malady; a morbid state of a plant or animal in which the organs do not perform their natural functions.
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State of being in bad health; illness.
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Usage examples for sickness
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Have you gone into the question of sleeping sickness – The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin Freeman
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As he lifted her he felt a deadly sickness come over him, but still he staggered on, till at last they both fell of a heap upon a big flat rock, and for a while he remembered no more. – Jess by H. Rider Haggard
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In the Kingdom of glory, sickness and pain shall have altogether disappeared. – Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Hengstenberg
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She says it's excellent in sickness – The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins
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This water was grateful to his sickness – Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Wace
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But what had they told Joan that she would go away without a word, leaving him in a sickness from which he might never have turned again? – The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by George W. Ogden
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I don't know anybody round here's had more sickness than Zeena. – Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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It's like a fever- it's like a sickness – Sisters by Kathleen Norris
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If she should fall ill, and break her heart, and die of home- sickness such things have happened before now- I wonder what he would say then about her learning to stand alone? – A Houseful of Girls by Sarah Tytler
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In dry weather there would be no difficulties or sickness – Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
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Up to this time we had had a great deal of sickness in camp. – California 1849-1913 or the Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State. by L. H. Woolley
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I wrote it the week before my sickness – My Boyhood by John Burroughs
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There had been sickness among the officers and Merryon, who was never sick, was doing the work of three men. – The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. Dell
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Surely she wouldn't, she couldn't ever forget her poor, forget misery and sickness as completely as that? – The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
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It is a kind of sickness and you can't fight it any more than if she really was sick. – Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells by William Dean Howells
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She had not asked him about Mrs. Maynard's sickness or shown any interest in it; but after she learned from the Barlows that she was no longer in danger, she said to her son one morning, before he drove away upon his daily visit, " Is her husband going to stay with her, or is he going back?" – Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells by William Dean Howells
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She sank down on the sofa; she threw her arms up in her heart- sickness she thought she would faint; she prayed to die. – East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
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High and low, rich and poor, young and old- those in health and those in sickness the light- hearted and happy- the miserable and forlorn- all alike are going the same road, and entering into a condition which, whether wretched or joyous, will last for eternity. – Old Jack by W.H.G. Kingston
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He died of a sudden sickness – Sanders of the River by Edgar Wallace
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Though they never take their families with them, they visit them on furlough every two or three years, and always return to them when the surgeon considers a change of air necessary to their recovery from sickness – Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman