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Sickening

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Revolting or disgusting; loathsome: a sickening stench.

adj. Causing sickness.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Causing sickness or disgust.

v. Present participle of sicken.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Making sick; causing or tending to cause faintness, nausea, disgust, or loathing: as, sickening sounds; sickening servility.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. causing or able to cause nausea

Word Usage

"Rupert Murdoch defiantly insisted on Tuesday he was not responsible for what he called "sickening and horrible invasions" of privacy committed by his company, claiming he had been betrayed by disgraceful unidentified colleagues and had known nothing of the cover-up of phone hacking."

Equivalent

unwholesome

Cross Reference

abominable detestable loathsome disgusting hateful

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

nauseating nauseous disgusting

Verb Stem

sicken

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

chickening quickening thickening