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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of;
- Example: "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
[syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up]

2. get sick;
- Example: "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
[syn: sicken, come down]

3. upset and make nauseated;
- Example: "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"
- Example: "The mold on the food sickened the diners"
[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. [1913 Webster] The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. [1913 Webster] Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To become disgusting or tedious. [1913 Webster] The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 4. To become weak; to decay; to languish. [1913 Webster] All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. [1913 Webster] 3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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"