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The sickness in her mind was a reflection of the sickness of her life, a sickness created by her family and her society.

You already protect you, and look after you in sickness and in health.

I knew there would be good times and bad, sickness and health, broken dishwashers and giant cockroaches in the bathroom.

The news is being taken as confirmation that Kate is fully recovered from her pregnancy sickness.

And now that you mention it, I also got seasick, and had altitude sickness, and had to be rescued a few times.

Sickness had never blanched the warm glow on her cheeks, or dimmed the brightness of her large, lustrous eyes.

"Sleeping sickness" is a late stage when the organisms have invaded the cerebrospinal fluid.

So that (wonderful to relate) they had no sickness, although there was sufficient cause for it in the privations they suffered.

They arrived on the 29th January, after a very good passage, and without one hour's sickness.

The same story everywhere—lack of men, meaning extra work—which again means sickness and still greater lack of men.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sickness, such as: ailment, disease, disorder, ill health, illness, and infirmity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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