sickroom

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sick·room

(sĭk′ro͞om′, -ro͝om′)

A room occupied by a sick person.

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sickroom

(ˈsɪkˌruːm; -ˌrʊm)

1. (Medicine) a room to which a person who is ill is confined

2. (Medicine) a room set aside, as in a school, for people who are taken ill

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sick•room

(ˈsɪkˌrum, -ˌrʊm)

n.

a room in which a sick person is confined.

[1740–50]

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sickroom - a room to which a sick person is confined

room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"

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sickroom

[ˈsɪkrʊm] N → cuarto m del enfermo

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She also speaks of a locked door of communication with the sickroom, the key of which had been removed, nobody knew by whom.

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Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah `knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected".

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A very few lines from Edmund shewed her the patient and the sickroom in a juster and stronger light than all Lady Bertram's sheets of paper could do.

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The second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red from weeping and sat down beside Dr.

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He almost always saw her before going to the sickroom, and she appealed to him as to what she could do for mamma.

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the consultations and paperwork intrude into the sickroom and turn what

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However, this testimony came from people in the sickroom related to the defendant.

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This type of presupposition is triggered by presuppositional discourse stretches such as "Heedless of the proud world's enjoyment," "But God, how deadly dull to sample sickroom attendance night and day and never stir a foot away!," "And the sly baseness, fit to throttle, of entertaining the half-dead," and "When will the devil come to you" (Pushkin, 1977ed:7, 13).

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In these stories, "often the schoolboy hero visits the sickroom of his closest friend, and eventually meets his family...