About The Word Sicken
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Sicken
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What's The Definition Of Sicken?
[v] get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
[v] make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me" [v] cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of [v] upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the foood turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold ont he food sickened the diners" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sicken: churn up | come down | disgust | nauseate | nauseate | revolt | turn one's stomach Related Terms | Find terms related to Sicken: See Also | appal | appall | canker | choke | contract | decline | disgust | gag | get | harm | offend | outrage | repel | repel | repulse | revolt | scandalise | scandalize | shock | take | wan | worsen Sicken In Webster's Dictionary \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. |
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