[syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach]
4. make sick or ill;
- Example: "This kind of food sickens me"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sicken \Sick"en\, v. i.
1. To become sick; to fall into disease.
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The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that
attended, sickened upon it and died. --Bacon.
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2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to
be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or
satiated.
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Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. --Shak.
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3. To become disgusting or tedious.
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The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. --Goldsmith.
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4. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
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All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb.
n. Sickening.]
1. To make sick; to disease.
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Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.
--Prior.
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2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken
the stomach.
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3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sicken
v 1: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The
pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust,
revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up]
2: get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the
hospital" [syn: sicken, come down]
3: upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the
pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the
diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach]
4: make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"