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PRONUNCIATION OF WATER-SICK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATER-SICK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Water-Sick is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WATER-SICK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of water-sick in the English dictionary

The definition of water-sick in the dictionary is made infertile or uncultivable by excessive irrigation.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WATER-SICK

water witch
water worker
water-bath
water-cool
water-cooled
water-cooling
water-free
water-like
water-repellent
water-resistant
water-ski
water-skier
water-skiing
water-soak
water-soluble
waterage
waterboarding
waterborne
waterbrain
waterbuck

WORDS THAT END LIKE WATER-SICK

airsick
anointing of the sick
brainsick
bush-sick
carsick
cropsick
fossick
greensick
heartsick
homesick
look sick
lovesick
oversick
seasick
sick
tisick
travel-sick

Synonyms and antonyms of water-sick in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «water-sick» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WATER-SICK

Find out the translation of water-sick to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of water-sick from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «water-sick» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

水病
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

- enfermo agua
570 millions of speakers

English

water-sick
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पानी बीमार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المرضى المياه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вода - больной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

doente em água
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জল-অসুস্থ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

malade dans l´eau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Air yang sakit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wasser - Kranken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

水 - 病気
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

물 병
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lara banyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nước bệnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீர் உடம்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाणी बीमार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

suda hasta
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malato - acqua
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chory wody
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вода -хворий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bolnav - apă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νερό - άρρωστα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

water - siek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vatten - sjuka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vann - syke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of water-sick

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WATER-SICK»

The term «water-sick» is used very little and occupies the 183.371 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about water-sick

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER-SICK»

Discover the use of water-sick in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to water-sick and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lessons in Cookery: Hand-Book of the National Training ...
295 toast and water — Sick- Boom Cookery 298 PASS Drinks — treacle posset — Siek-Eoom Cookery 800 white-wine whey — Siek-Eoom Cookery 800 Dripping, clarifying— Prying 12 Dr. Kitchener's broth— Soups 124 Dumplings— bard ...
London National Training School for Cook, Rose Cole, Thomas Chambers, 2008
2
The Official Handbook for the National Training School for ...
... 102 — (Indian) — Entrees 61 Custard pudding — Puddings 269 — sauce — Souffles 336 Cutlets, lobster— Fish 200 — . mutton — Entrees 70 — • veal — Entrees 74 Dough cake— Cakes 364 Drinks — apple water — Sick-room cookery ...
National training college of domestic subjects, London, 1877
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The Official Handbook for the National Training School for ...
Apple amber pudding Puddings charlotte—Puddings .... .. — jelly—-]ellies ............ .... .. — turnovers and dumplings of short crust-Pastry .... .. — water-Sick-room cookery Apples and tapioca—Puddings . .. Arrowroot, cup of—Sick-room cookery .
National Training School for Cookery, 1892
4
Irrigation Farming: A Handbook for the Proper Application of ...
The condition of many thousand acres may justly be designated as water-sick — that is, they have been rendered sick, as the saying goes, by the constant seepage of water as described, and the consequence is the formation of pools, sloughs ...
Lucius Merle Wilcox, 1902
5
A Journey in the Future of Water
For the water in them comes from below. They are fed by salt- retaining ground water that rises due to the artificial supply of water leaking from irrigation channels. 'Almost 40 per cent of the area is water sick, and 15 per cent is seriously water ...
Terje Tvedt, 2013
6
Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and ...
Hurayra is confronted with having related both the Prophet's denial of contagion and his admonition not to water sick with healthy animals: Abū Salama b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf89 related that the Prophet of God, Peace be Upon Him, said  ...
Justin K. Stearns, 2011
7
Fathom
Arahab holds the blind, water-sick young woman and coos into the still girl's hair. “Before you, I took another,” she says. “I plucked him from the water as I plucked you, pulling him down into this abyss where I hold you now. By that point, I'd ...
Cherie Priest, 2008
8
The Golem
There's no water. SICK MAN. Careful: There's a stranger here — HUNCHBACK. A stranger? Here in Tower Five? BLIND MAN. (Nervously.) I told you — HUNCHBACK. (Suddenly seeing the Golem in silhouette, sitting in the corner.) It's him ...
‎2001
9
The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Tioga ...
Canker will rapidly spread through a flock, as the exudation from the sores is a virulent poison, and well birds are contaminated through the soft feed and drinking water. Sick birds should be separated from the flock and all water and feed ...
‎1917
10
Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future
A "water sick" area (translated from the Swedish meaning worthless for production because of abundant water) just outside of the main city in the municipality was of low priority until 1989. A few people began lobbying for conservation efforts, ...
Jon Norberg, Graeme S. Cumming, 2013

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Water-Sick [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/water-sick>. May 2024 ».
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