Ailing vs. Sick — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ailing and Sick
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Ailing
To feel ill or have pain
Has been ailing for weeks.
Sick
Affected by physical or mental illness
Visiting the sick and the elderly
Nursing very sick children
Half my staff were off sick
Ailing
To cause physical or mental pain or uneasiness to; trouble.
Sick
Feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit
Mark felt sick with fear
He was starting to feel sick
Ailing
An ailment.
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Sick
Intensely annoyed with or bored by (someone or something) as a result of having had too much of them
I'm absolutely sick of your moods
Ailing
Present participle of ail
Sick
(especially of humour) having something unpleasant such as death or misfortune as its subject and dealing with it in an offensive way
This was someone's idea of a sick joke
Ailing
Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.
She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.
Sick
Excellent.
Ailing
Sick; unhealthy. Opposite of well or healthy.
Sick
Vomit
She was busy wiping sick from the carpet
Ailing
Somewhat ill or prone to illness;
My poor ailing grandmother
Feeling a bit indisposed today
You look a little peaked
Feeling poorly
A sickly child
Is unwell and can't come to work
Sick
Bring something up by vomiting
She sicked up all over the carpet
He was passing blood and sicking it up
Sick
Set a dog on
The plan was to surprise the heck out of the grizzly by sicking the dog on him
Sick
Suffering from or affected with a physical illness; ailing.
Sick
Of or for sick persons
Sick wards.
Sick
Nauseated.
Sick
Mentally ill or disturbed.
Sick
Unwholesome, morbid, or sadistic
A sick joke.
A sick crime.
Sick
Defective; unsound
A sick economy.
Sick
Deeply distressed; upset
Sick with worry.
Sick
Disgusted; revolted.
Sick
Weary; tired
Sick of it all.
Sick
Pining; longing
Sick for his native land.
Sick
In need of repairs
A sick ship.
Sick
Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within
A sick office building.
Sick
Unable to produce a profitable yield of crops
Sick soil.
Sick
(Slang) Excellent; outstanding
Did a sick run down the halfpipe.
Sick
Sick people considered as a group. Often used with the.
Sick
Chiefly British Vomit.
Sick
Variant of sic2.
Sick
In poor health; ill.
She was sick all day with the flu.
We have to care for the sick.
Sick
Having an urge to vomit.
Sick
(colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
Sick
(colloquial) In bad taste.
That's a sick joke.
Sick
Tired of or annoyed by something.
I've heard that song on the radio so many times that I'm starting to get sick of it.
Sick
(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
This tune is sick.
Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!
Sick
In poor condition.
Sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick
Sick
(agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Sick
Vomit.
He lay there in a pool of his own sick.
Sick
(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.
Sick
(colloquial) To vomit.
I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.
Sick
To fall sick; to sicken.
Sick
(rare) sic
Sick
Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.
Behold them that are sick with famine.
Sick
Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
Sick
Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; - with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
Sick
Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
Sick
Sickness.
Sick
To fall sick; to sicken.
Sick
People who are sick;
They devote their lives to caring for the sick
Sick
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
Sick
Not in good physical or mental health;
Ill from the monotony of his suffering
Sick
Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Sick
Affected with madness or insanity;
A man who had gone mad
Sick
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
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