sickness

US: /ˈsɪknəs/

UK: /sˈɪknəs/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

sickness /'siknis/
  • danh từ
    • sự đau yếu; bệnh hoạn
    • bệnh
      • falling sickness: (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) bệnh động kinh
    • sự buồn nôn; sự nôn mửa

Advanced English dictionary

+ noun
1 [U] illness; bad health: She's been off work because of sickness. + insurance against sickness and unemployment
2 [U, C, usually sing.] a particular type of illness or disease: altitude / travel / radiation sickness + a sickness common in the tropics
See also - SLEEPING SICKNESS
3 [U] (especially BrE) the feeling that you are likely to VOMIT (= bring food back up from the stomach to the mouth); the fact of VOMITING: symptoms include sickness and diarrhoea + The sickness passed off after a while.
See also - MORNING SICKNESS
4 [sing.] a feeling of great sadness, disappointment or disgust: He felt a sickness rise in him at the thought of leaving.

Collocation

1 state of being ill

ADJ.

chronic, long, long-term

SICKNESS + NOUN

absence | allowance, benefit | insurance | rate

PREP.

due to/owing to/through ~
The Personnel Department keeps a record of employees absent through sickness.

2 nausea

VERB + SICKNESS

suffer (from)

SICKNESS + VERB

rise
The sickness rose inside him.

PHRASES

a feeling of sickness
Several workers complained of feelings of sickness and headaches.

3 particular type of illness

ADJ.

acute, chronic | air, car, motion, travel | altitude/mountain, decompression, radiation, sleeping
> Special page at ILLNESS


Concise dictionary

sicknesses'sɪknɪs
noun
+impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
+defectiveness or unsoundness
+the state that precedes vomiting

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