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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

get sick en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, sick.
  2. (euphemistic) To vomit.
    • "I didn't ever do that, but when I first started drinking I got sick all over this guy I was seeing," I say. 2004, Bridget Bufford, Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey, →ISBN, page 161:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
getting sick Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gets sick Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
got sick Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got sick Tense=Past lexicographic
gotten sick Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic

Synonyms

take sick · fall ill