Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable, usually)The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.

    Krankheit

    боле́зньboléznʹ

    хворо́баxvoróba

  2. (uncountable, usually)Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

    Brechreiz, Nausea, Übelkeit

    тошнота́tošnotá, рво́таrvóta

  3. (uncountable, usually)The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

More definitions
  • defectiveness or unsoundness
  • the state that precedes vomiting
  • impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

Examples

96 sentences
  1. She was absent from school because of sickness.

    Вона була відсутня у школі через хворобу.

    ruОна отсутствовала в школе по болезни.

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  2. Eating too much may lead to sickness.

    ruНеумеренность в еде может привести к болезням.

    deZu vieles Essen kann krank machen.

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  3. His long sickness ran him into debt.

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  4. Please give me medicine for motion sickness.

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  5. It took her four months to recover from her sickness.

    ruУ нее ушло четыре месяца на то, чтобы восстановиться после болезни.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady:
Русский
By meaning 2
the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady:
nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady:
nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocny

Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyss. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.

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