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Wiktionary

  1. sickeradverb

    certainly

  2. sickeradverb

    securely

  3. sickeradjective

    certain

  4. sickeradjective

    secure

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sickeradjective

    Sure; certain; firm.

    Etymology: sicer, Welsh; seker, Dutch.

    Being some honest curate, or some vicar,
    Content with little, in condition sicker. Hubberd’s Tale.

  2. Sickeradverb

    Surely; certainly.

    Sicker thou’s but a lazy loord,
    And rekes much of thy swink,
    That with fond terms and witless words,
    To bleer mine eyes do’st think. Edmund Spenser.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sickerverb

    to percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack

  2. Sickeradjective

    alt. of Siker

  3. Sickeradverb

    alt. of Siker

  4. Etymology: [AS. sicerian.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sicker

    sik′ėr, adj. (Scot.) sure, certain, firm.—adv. (Spens.) surely, certainly—also Sicc′ar.—n. Sick′erness (Spens.), the state of being sicker or certain. [A.S. siker—L. securus; Ger. sicher.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SICKER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sicker is ranked #91625 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sicker surname appeared 201 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sicker.

    97% or 195 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sicker in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sicker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of sicker in a Sentence

  1. Rebekah Gee:

    We're just sicker, we already had tremendous healthcare disparities before this pandemic – one can only imagine they are being amplified now.

  2. Sarah Combs:

    The interesting thing with rhinovirus is that normally it would cause just the common cold, it's normally a very mild virus. It's the most common cause of the common cold, so it is unusual that we're seeing children get sicker than we'd expect. And really what we see is that children are just getting that much sicker, you know, they may be requiring things like BiPap to breathe.

  3. Van Gorder:

    About half the patients that are testing positive are indicating they've crossed the border within the previous week, the patients that cross the border appear to be sicker than the patients that we've normally been seeing.

  4. Skip Collins:

    Everybody has a choice [to vaccinate], but I know from personal experience going through it, I believe and I'm certain that the vaccine helped, 100 percent, because I would've been sicker if I hadn't had the vaccine.

  5. Van Gorder:

    The patients that cross the border appear to be sicker than the patients that we've normally been seeing.

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