SICKEN

sicken, come down

(verb) get sick; “She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital”

sicken

(verb) make sick or ill; “This kind of food sickens me”

disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up

(verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; “The pornographic pictures sickened us”

sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach

(verb) upset and make nauseated; “The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman’s stomach”; “The mold on the food sickened the diners”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

sicken (third-person singular simple present sickens, present participle sickening, simple past and past participle sickened)

(transitive) To make ill.

(intransitive) To become ill.

(transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.

(sports) To lower the standing of.

(intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.

(intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.

(intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

Anagrams

• sincke

Source: Wiktionary

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Sick"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.]

1. To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.

2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.

3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] Shak.

Sick"en, v. i.

1. To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.

2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak.

3. To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith.

4. To become weak; to decay; to languish. All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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