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sick list
noun
- a list of persons who are sick.
sick list
noun
- a list of the sick, esp in the army or navy
Word History and Origins
Origin of sick list1
Idioms and Phrases
- on the sick list, in poor health; not well; ill.
Example Sentences
The League would hardly do anything with regard to the carrying out of their threat while Barry was on the sick-list.
A full month later her sick-list was still seventy-seven, out of a total of less than four hundred.
The complexion of the men became sallow, and every day numbers of them were put on the sick-list by the surgeons.
From a further body of 150 men sent as a reinforcement, half were reported on the sick list the day after their arrival.
These drawbacks, added to the lack of exercise and the constant wearing of clothes not yet dry, placed him on the sick list.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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