· people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"

Hypernym(s): people

· eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

Synonym(s): vomit, vomit_up, purge, cast, cat, be_sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw_up

Hypernym(s): excrete, egest, eliminate, pass

· affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

Synonym(s): ill

· feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

Synonym(s): nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish

· affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

Synonym(s): brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged

· having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke"

Synonym(s): disgusted, fed_up, sick_of, tired_of

· (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

Synonym(s): pale, pallid, wan

· deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"

· shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

Synonym(s): ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre