Usually means: Become ill; health temporarily worsens.
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  1. fall sick: Merriam-Webster
  2. fall sick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Fall Sick: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  4. fall sick: Wiktionary

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  1. fall sick: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fall sick)

▸ verb:  To become ill; to fall ill.

Similar:
sicken, take to one's bed, fall down, be taken bad, fall in, fall into, fall, call in sick, indispose, fall to bits, more...

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sicken, take to one's bed, fall down, be taken bad, fall in, fall into, fall, call in sick, indispose, fall to bits, more...



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