sickness

[ˈsɪknəs]

Definition:
1. Illness; bad health.
2. A particular type of illness or disease.
3. The state that precedes vomiting.

Use 'sickness' in a sentence:

1. Don't let my sickness concern you.
2. Dull ( dingy) yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.
3. Sickness is not weakness. We must fight back!
4. People can use Chinese medicine for almost any sickness they have.
5. This association, founded by Bill Drayton, has fought poverty and sickness, promoted education and encouraged small businesses.
6. To help comrades who have made mistakes, we should adopt the approach of “ curing the sickness to save the patient ”.
7. The sickness passed off after a while.
8. Twenty-seven million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness.
9. I think all of us need to rethink our attitudes toward health and sickness.
10. He felt a great rush of sickness.
11. Sickness has fastened on him.
12. For most of history, "hunger, sickness, and cold" threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote.
13. Sunshine, fresh air, and rest often accelerate a person's recovery from sickness.
14. The symptoms of morning sickness would be listed and horrors of childbirth pictured.
15. The boy refuses to go to school on [ under] the pretext of illness [ an ailment, sickness].
16. Most women have some form of morning sickness caused by pregnancy hormones.
17. Sickness will often then be a result of unresolved inner conflicts which in time show up in the body.
18. They were disabled by age or sickness.
19. Fever indicates sickness.
20. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings.
21. The result is decompression sickness, a hazard human divers know all too well.
22. When he returned, he noticed their sickness and prepared an antidote.
23. Such cats displayed more aggressive and anxious behavioural styles as well as more stress-related sickness.
24. The medical world is now paying more attention to holistic medicine which is an approach based on the belief that people state of mind can make them sick or speed their recovery from sickness.
25. Sickness often results from eating too much.
26. When everybody speaks against a person, it will make him tired of life [ frightened to death].; A thousand pointing fingers accuse, and a man dies even without a sickness.; It is dangerous to incur public wrath.
27. More than 930 local people are registered as suffering from radiation sickness.
28. 27 million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness.
29. In the classic marriage vow, couples promise to stay together in sickness and in health.
30. I'm a boy, you see, and all boys hate medicine more than they do sickness.
31. In fifty-two years of working he had one week of sickness.
32. There are countless others who, because of age, sickness or plain absent-mindedness, simply forget to pay for what they take from the shops.
33. After a while, the sickness gradually passed and she struggled to the mirror.
34. Within a couple days — truly terrible days for some — astronauts' brains learn to ignore the panicky signals from the inner ear, and space sickness disappears.
35. Many remedies were employed by the physicians for his sickness, but all were of no avail.
36. While many people insure against death, far fewer take precautions against long-term loss of income because of sickness.
37. Think carefully before you insure against accident, sickness and redundancy.
38. The contributions employees pay give cover against sickness, including chronic invalidity.
39. For the cumulative impact of sensory, cognitive or decisional overstimulation, creates sickness in our midst.
40. The official reason given for the President's absence was sickness.
41. I was afraid the sickness had sapped my strength.
42. There appears to be another outbreak of sickness among seals in the North Sea.
43. I recommend you get insurance against sickness and unemployment.
44. We strongly recommend insuring against sickness or injury.
45. She's been off work because of sickness.
46. Many women experience sickness during pregnancy.
47. Altitude sickness usually begins when a climber goes above 8,000 to 9,000 feet.
48. A few precautions can help most climbers avoid altitude sickness.
49. He is seized with a painful sickness.
50. Stress is often a factor in the development of long-term sickness.