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.

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. David Cameron:

    The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

  2. William Tong:

    It makes you sick to your stomach, it's sickening that people who are so close to this disaster were so callous.

  3. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke:

    I want to dump the bucket. I'd like to have everybody see everything that went on because it's sickening to me what I saw, but they were all dealt with accordingly.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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