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Grammar : Adj
Spell : sik
Phonetic Transcription : sɪk



Definition of sickest

Origin :
  • "to chase, set upon" (as in command sick him!), 1845, dialectal variant of seek. Used as an imperative to incite a dog to attack a person or animal; hence "cause to pursue." Related: Sicked; sicking.
  • adj not healthy, not feeling well
  • adj morbid, gross
  • adj fed up, displeased
Example sentences :
  • The sickest passenger on board is the most delighted by this circumstance.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • If it's healin' you're after, bring fo'th the sickest you've got.
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • He looked the saddest, sickest, bleakest creature I had ever seen.
  • Extract from : « The Mutiny of the Elsinore » by Jack London
  • John Wooden of our company is probably the sickest man in the ward.
  • Extract from : « Diary of an Enlisted Man » by Lawrence Van Alstyne
  • I found Brother Rockwood the sickest man that had been in our company.
  • Extract from : « Wilford Woodruff » by Matthias F. Cowley
  • The boy that looked the sickest was regarded as the most pious.
  • Extract from : « Ingersollia » by Robert G. Ingersoll
  • Biscuit, who was the last to succumb, was the sickest of all.
  • Extract from : « Sube Cane » by Edward Bellamy Partridge
  • He had fever from cold and exposure, but you was the sickest of the two.
  • Extract from : « Captain Ted » by Louis Pendleton
  • I brought them back from there yesterday on No. 5, and they were the sickest crowd you ever saw.
  • Extract from : « The Short Line War » by Samuel Merwin
  • In the evening, I told her she had better retire to rest with one of the children, and I would watch with the sickest child.
  • Extract from : « History of the Prophet Joseph by His Mother » by Lucy Smith

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