sickness
part of speech
noun (sickness, uncountable; a sickness, sicknesses)
meaning for a pupil
1) Sickness is being ill or unwell. tree →
2) A sickness is a particular illness or disease. tree →
3) Sickness can mean feeling like you are going to vomit (throw up), as in travel sickness or seasickness. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health lessons, sickness is what germs can cause, and washing hands helps stop sickness spreading. In everyday life, children may get car sickness or seasickness on trips. Phrases: «motion sickness», «travel sickness», «sickness bug», «in sickness and in health».
examples
- Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. (Torah DEU.28.61, JPS 1917) tree →
- And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. (Torah EXO.23.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. (Torah DEU.28.59, JPS 1917) tree →
- My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as the sickness of my flesh. (Writings JOB.6.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much vexation and sickness and wrath. (Writings ECC.5.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.' (Prophets JER.10.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- He missed school because of sickness. tree →
- Washing your hands helps stop sickness from spreading. tree →
- I get car sickness on long, winding roads. tree →
- She took a pill for seasickness before the ferry trip. tree →
- Altitude sickness can happen high up in the mountains. tree →
- The farmer worried about a sickness among his cows. tree →
- A tummy sickness went round the whole class. tree →
- Our food gave out, and we suffered much from sickness on board. tree →
note
Mostly uncountable («a lot of sickness»), but countable for kinds of illness («many sicknesses»). Sickness = illness; «sick» in US English means ill, but in UK English «be sick» often means vomit. «Homesickness» is a sad feeling of missing home, not an illness of the body.
In the corpora
- The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
- My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.'
- The LORD support him upon the bed of illness; mayest Thou turn all his lying down in his sickness.
- My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as the sickness of my flesh.
- All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much vexation and sickness and wrath.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sickness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.