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Sicken

Sicken Meaning & Definition
Sicken Definition And Meaning

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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