What does sicken mean?

Definitions for sicken
ˈsɪk ənsick·en

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn upverb

    cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

    "The pornographic pictures sickened us"

  2. sicken, come downverb

    get sick

    "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"

  3. 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"

  4. sickenverb

    make sick or ill

    "This kind of food sickens me"

Wiktionary

  1. sickenverb

    To make ill.

    The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.

  2. sickenverb

    To become ill.

    I will sicken if I don't get some more exercise.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. Sickenverb

    to make sick; to disease

  2. Sickenverb

    to make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach

  3. Sickenverb

    to impair; to weaken

  4. Sickenverb

    to become sick; to fall into disease

  5. Sickenverb

    to be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated

  6. Sickenverb

    to become disgusting or tedious

  7. Sickenverb

    to become weak; to decay; to languish

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sicken in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sicken in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sicken in a Sentence

  1. Dorothy Parker:

    They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

  2. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

    Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

  3. William Shakespeare:

    If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die

  4. Dorothy Parker:

    They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

  5. James R. Cook:

    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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Translations for sicken

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  • meathlaighIrish
  • maladigar, maladeskarIdo
  • hasta olmak, hastalanmak, hasta etmekTurkish
  • malädükön, malädikönVolapük

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