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
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.
• sincke
Source: Wiktionary
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
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
