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Definitions for Sickening
ˈsɪk ə nɪŋsick·en·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vileadjective

    causing or able to cause nausea

    "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

Wiktionary

  1. sickeningadjective

    Causing sickness or disgust.

ChatGPT

  1. sickening

    Sickening is defined as causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea, disgust, or revulsion. It can also mean appalling or extreme to the point of causing a strong sense of disgust, distressing, or shocking. It can often be used to describe a situation, act, smell, taste, or sight that is intensely unpleasant or disagreeable.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sickening

    of Sicken

  2. Sickeningadjective

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

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sickening in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sickening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Sickening in a Sentence

  1. Rich Fury/Getty Images:

    I was blindsided, john was basically leading a double life throughout our whole marriage. When I learned about the affair, I also learned he’s diverting narcotics. I helped him become a nurse [after changing professions], a very sacred profession. It was just sickening to me. Here I was, trying to help him gain this prestigious degree and title. And this is what he was doing with it.

  2. Bill Gelin:

    No one had spoken to them or apologized on behalf of the legal system for the despicable way Twiggs was treated until I called, this was sickening to me, so I did it for them.

  3. Reginald Bolding:

    It’s a sickening irony that he’s doing this by dangling millions of federally provided funds for COVID-19 relief and forcing school districts to choose between the health and safety of kids and educators, or millions in additional funding that Republicans have withheld for years, with the delta variant running rampant and COVID-19 cases among children on the rise, it’s disgusting to put a bounty on spreading this illness to kids and punishing schools that try to operate safely.

  4. Sergeant Abdirahman:

    I think we need to call this out for what it is: it’s a grift, while there are many good people who associate themselves as BLM activists, the people at the top of the organization couldn’t care less. While the people of Minneapolis, the epicenter of the George Floyd riots, struggle with homelessness, spiking crime, and the nation's largest achievement gap for Black kids, the people sitting at the top of BLM live in multi-million dollar mansions, it’s sickening.

  5. Dillon King:

    I will just say that whatever you do in the darkness comes out in the light, if you’re going to look at such disgusting and sickening images, justice has to be served.

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