sicken Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
    nauseate; revolt; churn up; disgust.
    • The pornographic pictures sickened us
  2. verb get sick
    come down.
    • She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital
  3. verb upset and make nauseated
    nauseate; turn one's stomach.
    • The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach
    • The mold on the food sickened the diners
  4. verb make sick or ill
    • This kind of food sickens me

WordNet


Sick"en transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Sickened ; present participle & verbal noun Sickening
Definitions
  1. To make sick; to disease.
    Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.
  2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
  3. To impair; to weaken. Obs. Shak.
Sick"en intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To become sick; to fall into disease.
    The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.
  2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
    Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak.
  3. To become disgusting or tedious.
    The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith.
  4. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
    All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope.

Webster 1913