sicks
SaySIKS/sɪks/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of sick.
The farmer sicks his hounds on the foxes near the henhouse.
Whenever a reporter pries too far, the company sicks its lawyers on them.
Note
This form serves three different verbs. In the attack sense it is a rare spelling of sic, "set upon". It takes an object plus an on-phrase naming the target (she sicks the dog on intruders), though the more usual spelling is sics. In colloquial British and Australian English the same form means "vomits". As an intransitive verb it means "falls ill, sickens".
sicks is a form of sick
sick, verb: To fall ill; to begin to suffer from disease. Full entry
- Spelling
- sick → sicks: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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