Sick vs Infirmed - What's the difference?
sick | infirmed |
In poor health.
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, chapter=7 (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
(colloquial) In bad taste.
Having an urge to vomit.
(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome.
In poor condition.
(agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Tired of or annoyed by something.
Sick people in general as a group.
(colloquial) vomit.
To vomit.
:I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.
(obsolete) To fall sick; to sicken.
* circa 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2 :
(rare)
* 1920 , James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
* 1938 , Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ISBN 141915222X, page 125,
* 1957 , , 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
* 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman , University of Calgary Press, ISBN 1552380408, page 82,
(infirm)
Weak or ill, not in good health.
* Shakespeare
Irresolute; weak of mind or will.
* Burke
* Shakespeare
Fail; unstable; insecure.
* South
To contradict, to provide proof that something is not.
As verbs the difference between sick and infirmed
is that sick is to vomit while infirmed is past tense of infirm.As an adjective sick
is in poor health.As a noun sick
is sick people in general as a group.sick
English
(wikipedia sick)Etymology 1
Middle English sek, sik, from (etyl) .Adjective
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Synonyms
* (in poor health) ill, not well, poorly (British), sickly, unwell * (mentally unstable) disturbed, twisted, warped. * (having an urge to vomit) nauseated, nauseous * rad, wicked * See alsoAntonyms
* (in poor health) fit, healthy, well * (excellent) crap, naff, uncoolDerived terms
* airsick * be sick * brainsick * carsick * dogsick * fall sick * heartsick * homesick * iron-sick, iron sick, ironsick * junk sick * lovesick * nailsick, nail sick, nailsick * seasick * sick and tired * sick and twisted * sick as a dog * sick bag * sickbay * sickbed * sick building syndrome * sick day * sicken * sickening * sickhouse * sickie * sickish * sick joke * sickly * sickness * sick note * sick pay * sick puppy * sicko * sickout * sickroom * sick to one's stomach * soulsick * thoughtsickNoun
(-)- We have to cure the sick .
- He lay there in a pool of his own sick .
Synonyms
* (vomit) SeeVerb
(en verb)- Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- "Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick' 'em, Wapi—'''sick''' 'em—'''sick''' 'em—' sick 'em!"
- When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
- "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
- Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.
infirmed
English
Verb
(head)infirm
English
Adjective
(er)- He was infirm of body but still keen of mind, and though it looked like he couldn't walk across the room, he crushed me in debate.
- A poor, infirm , weak, and despised old man.
- An infirm judgment.
- Infirm of purpose!
- He who fixes on false principles treads on infirm ground.
Verb
(en verb)- The thought is that you see an episode of observation, experiment, or reasoning as confirming or infirming a hypothesis depending on whether your probability for it increases or decreases during the episode.
