sickens
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sicken
• sinckes
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
3 May 2025
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
