What does sicken mean?
Definitions for sicken
ˈsɪk ənsick·en
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Princeton's WordNet
disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn upverb
cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
"The pornographic pictures sickened us"
sicken, come downverb
get sick
"She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomachverb
upset and make nauseated
"The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"
sickenverb
make sick or ill
"This kind of food sickens me"
Wiktionary
sickenverb
To make ill.
The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
sickenverb
To become ill.
I will sicken if I don't get some more exercise.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Sickenverb
Etymology: from sick.
Why should one earth, one clime, one stream, one breath,
Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death? Matthew Prior.Kinsmen of mine have
By this so sicken’d their estates, that never
They shall abound as formerly. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.To Sickenverb
I know the more one sickens, the worse he is. William Shakespeare.
The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it, and died. Francis Bacon.
Meerly to drive away the time, he sicken’d,
Fainted, and died; nor would with ale be quicken’d. John Milton.Though the treasure
Of nature’s germins tumble all together,
Even ’till destruction sicken, answer me
To what I ask you. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.The ghosts repine at violated night,
And curse th’ invading sun, and sicken at the sight. Dryden.Ply’d thick and close, as when the fight begun,
Their huge unwieldy navy wastes away:
So sicken waining moons too near the sun,
And blunt their crescents on the edge of day. Dryden.Abstract what others feel, what others think;
All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Alexander Pope.
ChatGPT
sicken
To sicken means to become ill or to contract a disease. It can also refer to causing disgust or revulsion, or making someone feel a strong aversion to something.
Webster Dictionary
Sickenverb
to make sick; to disease
Sickenverb
to make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach
Sickenverb
to impair; to weaken
Sickenverb
to become sick; to fall into disease
Sickenverb
to be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated
Sickenverb
to become disgusting or tedious
Sickenverb
to become weak; to decay; to languish
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sicken in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sicken in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of sicken in a Sentence
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.
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