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/sˈɪkənɪŋ/ /sˈɪknɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Sickening adj. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

verb

Sicken v. t. (past & past part. sickened; pres. part. sickening)

To make sick; to disease. "Raise this strength, and sicken that to death."

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

To impair; to weaken. (Obs.)

Sicken v. i.

To become sick; to fall into disease. "The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died."

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."

To become disgusting or tedious. "The toiling pleasure sickens into pain."

To become weak; to decay; to languish. "All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink."

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Etymology of 'Sickening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sickening" Quotes from Famous Books

... Calmady, meanwhile, lay still and very fairly peaceful upon the narrow camp-bed in the middle of the room. He had lain there, save during one hour,—the memory of which haunted Katherine with hideous and sickening persistence,—ever since Tom Chifney, the head-lad from the stables, and a couple of grooms had carried him in, on a hurdle, from the ...

— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... the tables toward Plimsoll who sat regarding them balefully, his teeth just showing between his parted lips, cards in midair, action in a paralysis that was caused by the concentration forced by Sandy's even gaze, by the same sickening conviction that his manhood shriveled in front of Sandy and that Sandy knew it. Oaths against Wyatt rose automatically in his brain like bubbles in a mineral spring, together with the consciousness that Wyatt, if not allied against him, was no longer for him, that his chosen tools lacked edge. ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... relatives of the prisoners, pressing about and crying out to Williams to have mercy on them. As for Williams, he took them in to the Colonel, the townspeople pressing into the door-yard and banking in front of it on the street. Behind all a tragedy impended, nor can I think of it now without sickening. ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... at the door-frame as it went by. He swung with a sickening thud into the inner wall, but he hung on and pulled ...

— The Worshippers • Damon Francis Knight

... laws are made. So I'm going up to Wake Hill and live with Charlotte and Jerry, and see if I can't get tired enough every day to sleep at night. I couldn't keep on here. I couldn't. What we call civilization is too sickening to me. I should simply go off my nut. And when you come to that, it's an awful complication, besides the suffering of it. That I shrink from, too. I'm talking a good deal, but actually it's the thing I least want to do. I don't ...

— Old Crow • Alice Brown

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