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Meaning of 'sicken' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sicken [ v. i.]
- To become sick; to fall into disease.
- To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
- To become disgusting or tedious.
- To become weak; to decay; to languish.
2 . Sicken [ v. t.]
- To make sick; to disease.
- To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
- To impair; to weaken.

Meaning of 'sicken' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sicken [ v]
Meaning (1):
- get sick
Example in sentence:
  • She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital
Meaning (2):
- upset and make nauseated
Example in sentence:
  • The mold on the food sickened the diners;
  • The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach
Meaning (3):
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
Example in sentence:
  • The pornographic pictures sickened us
Meaning (4):
- make sick or ill
Example in sentence:
  • This kind of food sickens me

Nearby Words:

sic sicamore sicca siccate siccation siccative siccific siccity sice sicer

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