Meaning

1 senses

  1. (figuratively)To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.

Examples

10 sentences

  1. I'm sicker than I thought I was.

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  2. I'm a lot sicker now than I was last week.

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  3. We're a lot sicker now than we were last week.

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  4. I'm sicker than I thought.

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  5. Tom got sicker.

    deTom wurde kränker. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez (“(it) trickles, (it) le

Inherited from Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez (“(it) trickles, (it) leaks, (it) oozes”)), from Old English sicerian (“to ooze, seep”), from Proto-West Germanic *sikarōn, from Proto-Germanic *sikarōną (“to trickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow running water”). Cognate with German Low German sickern (“to seep”), German sickern (“to seep, trickle”). Akin also to English sitch.

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Forms

sickers, sickering, sickered, sickered
Base formsicker · to sicker
3rd person singularsickers
Present participlesickering
Past simplesickered
Past participlesickered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysicker
he, she, itsickers

Past simpleLesson

all personssickered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sickered
he, she, ithas sickered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sicker

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sickA1sickensicklesickly
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