[
US
/ˈsɪkən/
]
[ UK /sˈɪkən/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪkən/ ]
VERB
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make sick or ill
This kind of food sickens me -
get sick
She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital -
upset and make nauseated
The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach
The mold on the food sickened the diners -
cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
The pornographic pictures sickened us
How To Use sicken In A Sentence
- I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
- Now the inclusion of this is a real sickener. Times, Sunday Times
- One of his idiosyncrasies was a faith in coffee as a panacea; and I heard that while sickening he deluged himself with that beverage, to what profit let physicians say. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
- There was a sickening lurch; immediate survival seemed more crucial than a putative riot.
- There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.
- He finally sickened of the endless round of parties and idle conversation.
- Taboula, a parsley, tomato, onion and burghul - or cracked wheat - salad was drenched in the most sickening oil.
- If this arrangement is disturbed, the body sickens; if it is sufficiently upset, the body dies.
- The very fact that people are willing to accept this in their daily lives kind of sickens me.
- He hit the floor with a sickening thud.