Sicken

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make or become sick. See Synonyms at disgust.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make ill.
  • v. To become ill.
  • v. To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
  • v. To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
  • v. To become disgusting or tedious.
  • v. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make sick; to disease.
  • v. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust.
  • v. To impair; to weaken.
  • verb-intransitive. To become sick; to fall into disease.
  • verb-intransitive. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
  • verb-intransitive. To become disgusting or tedious.
  • verb-intransitive. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fall sick; fall into ill health; become ill: used of persons, animals, or plants: as, the fowl sickened; the vine sickened.
  • To experience a sickening sensation; feel nauseated or disgusted: as, to sicken at the sight of squalor.
  • To lose force or vitality; become weakened, impaired, or deteriorated: said of things (in technical use, especially of mercury: compare mortification, 1 ).
  • To make sick; bring into a disordered state or condition; affect with disease, or (more commonly) with some temporary disorder or indisposition, as nausea, vertigo, or languor: as, the bad odors sickened him.
  • To make mentally sick; cause to feel nauseating contempt or disgust. See sickening.
  • To make nauseatingly weary (of) or dissatisfied (with); cause a disgusted dislike in: with of: as, this sickened him of his bargain.
  • To bring into an unsettled or disordered state; impair; impoverish: said of things.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. upset and make nauseated
  • v. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
  • v. make sick or ill
  • v. get sick
  • Verb Form
    sickened    sickening    sickens   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disgust    revolt    gross out    repel   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nauseate    disgust    impair    weaken    decay    languish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Wiccan    chicken    quicken    stricken    thicken   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    horrible    terrify    horrid    unpleasant    agonize    unbearable    dizzy    unmistakable    terrific    overwhelm