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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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be sick

US pronunciation

American soundbe sick

besick

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

be - sick -> be sick

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

sick /sÇk/ adj (-er, -est )

၁။ မကျန်းမာသော။ နေမကောင်း[သော]။ နာသော။ a sick person/animal/plant ❍ She has been sick for weeks. ❍ He's off (work) sick.
၂။ ပျို့အန်ချင်သော။ feeling sick ❍ You'll make yourself sick if you eat all those sweets. ❍ a sick feeling in the stomach ❍ Before going on stage I felt sick with fear.
၃။ ~ of sb/sth/doing sth (infml ) ငြီးငွေ့သော။ စိတ်ကုန်သော။ စက်ဆုပ်သော။ I'm sick of waiting around like this. ❍ She has had the same job for years and is heartily sick of it. ❍ I'm sick of the sight of you!
၄။ ~ (at/about sth/doing sth) စိတ်ဆင်းရဲသော။ စိတ်ပျက်သော။ စက်ဆုပ်သော။ We were pretty sick about losing the match.
၅။ (infml ) မသတီစရာ။ အော်ဂလီဆန်ချင်သော။ a sick joke/mind ❍ She made a sick remark about dead babies.
n
၁။ [U] (Brit infml ) အန်ဖတ်။ The basin was full of sick.
၂။ the sick [pl v ] နာမကျန်းသူ။ ဖျားသူ။ All the sick and wounded were evacuated.
❏ be sick [IDM ] (Brit ) အန်သည်။ The cat's been sick on the carpet.
❏ fall sick (with sth) ; (fml ) take sick [IDM ] နေမကောင်း ဖြစ်သည်။ He fell sick with malaria on a trip to Africa.
❏ go sick [IDM ] ဆေးခွင့်တိုင်သည်။ I couldn't face work on Monday so I went sick.
❏ make sb sick [IDM ] အော့နှလုံးနာစေသည်။ His hypocrisy makes me sick.
❏ -sick (forming compound adjs )… မူးခြင်း။ … တောက်ခြင်း။ seasick ❍ airsick ❍ travel-sick ❍ carsick. See also HOMESICK
❏ (as) sick as a parrot [IDM ] (Brit joc catchphrase ) စက်ဆုပ်သည်။ အထူးစိတ်ပျက်သည်။
❏ sick at heart [IDM ] (fml ) စိတ်မချမ်းမြေ့စွာနှင့်။ She left her home reluctantly and sick at heart.
❏ sick headache n (Brit ) ပြင်းထန်စွာခေါင်းကိုက်ပြီး အန်ခြင်း။
❏ sick-leave n [U] နာမကျန်းခွင့်။ ဆေးခွင့်ဖြင့်နေချိန်။ be granted sick-leave ❍ be on two weeks' sick-leave.
❏ sick-pay n [U] ဆေးခွင့်ဖြင့်နေစဉ် ရသည့်လစာ။
❏ sick to one's stomach [IDM ] (US ) ရွံသည်။ အော်ဂလီ ဆန်သည်။
❏ sick sth up [PHRV ] (Brit infml ) အန်ထုတ်သည်။ The baby sicked up a little milk.

More examples

I’m going to be sick!
[violently sick] : He was violently sick over the side of the boat.
[make yourself sick] : People with eating disorders often make themselves sick.
[sick feeling] : The thought of seeing him gave her a sick feeling in her stomach.
He stayed at home caring for his sick wife.
[sick and injured/wounded/dying] : A clinic for animals that are sick and injured
[get/fall sick] : He suddenly fell very sick and died a few days later.
Sick humour/jokes
If you ask me, he’s sick in the head.
The hair, make up and outfit is sick! She looks amazing!

Synonyms

ill, unwell, pale, under par, bad, under the weather, ailing, not a hundred percent, barf, bedridden, below par, bile, bilious, bizarre, black, blasÃ©, bored, broken down, confined, debilitated, declining, defective, delicate, diseased, disgusted, disordered, displeased, dizzy, down, fed up, feeble, feverish, frail, funny, ghoulish, green, green around the gills, gross, gruesome, had it, hospitalized, impaired, imperfect, in a bad way, in bad taste, in poor health, incurable, indisposed, infected, infirm, invalid, jaded, laid-up, lousy, macabre, mean, morbid, morose, nauseated, nauseating, nauseous, not healthy, not so hot, off-color, out of sorts, peaked, poorly, puke, qualmish, queasy, revolted, revolting, rickety, rocky, rotten, run down, sadistic, satiated, sick and tired, sick as a dog, sick to death, sick to the back teeth, sickening, sickly, suffering, tasteless, tired, tottering, under medication, unhealthy, up to here, up to here with, vile, vomit, vomitus, weak, weary, wobbly

Antonyms

activated, clean, content, fresh, gentle, happy, healthy, moral, nice, perfect, pleased, satisfied, sound, strong, undiseased, well

Cross references

ill unwell pale under par bad under the weather ailing not a hundred percent barf bedridden below par bile bilious bizarre black blasÃ©bored broken down confined debilitated declining defective delicate diseased disgusted disordered displeased dizzy

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