sicker
Verbsickers, sickering, sickered
Formssickers, sickering, sickered
- 1Comparative of sick. Use this to say someone or something is more sick than before.
She felt sicker after the long car ride.
The medicine made him sicker instead of better.
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- 2To slowly leak or drip through a small gap, like water through a crack.
Like water slowly finding its way through a tiny crack.
Water began to sicker through the cracked wall after the rain.
No drop of water fell from the hot blue Or sickered from the skeleton of earth.
1917, Gerhart Hauptmann, Ludwig LewisohnHere, sickered means leaked or dripped slowly through small cracks.Note
- 3Safe and well protected from harm or danger.
I'm as great on the side o' the law as it's siccar to be in thae uncertain times.
1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The RaidersHere, siccar means safe and well protected.Note
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sicker is a form of sick
sick, adjective: Not feeling well because of an illness or disease. Full entry
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Origins
This is the comparative of "sick": meaning "more sick." It comes from Old English sēocra.
It came through Middle English and Old English from Latin sēcūrus, meaning "secure" or "without care."
It came from Old English sicerian, meaning "to ooze or seep," related to a word for slow-running water.