What does sickening mean?

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.

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. Hussam Ayloush:

    The Muslim community stands shoulder to shoulder with our fellow Americans in repudiating any twisted mindset that would claim to justify such sickening acts of violence.

  2. Steve Descano:

    It's sickening and unacceptable that any member of our community fears for their safety during a routine traffic stop. That's why I will not rest until we bring about the day when this is no longer the case.

  3. Liz Cheney:

    As the mother of daughters, the charges certainly are sickening. As the Speaker noted there is an ethics investigation underway, there are criminal investigations underway, and I'm not going to comment further on that publicly right now.

  4. 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.

  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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