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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

... accomplished, but on the contrary disaster had followed disaster in battle, and after many months the two armies were encamped facing each other and almost in sight of Washington, while the soldiers from the North were rapidly sickening and dying in the Southern camps. Small wonder if there ...

— The Life of Abraham Lincoln • Henry Ketcham

... resting-time, and each man gladly threw himself full length on the grass. For a moment there was a silence, then Tom heard a sound which gave him a sickening sensation; he felt a sinking, too, at the pit of his stomach: it was the boom, boom, boom ...

— Tommy • Joseph Hocking

... this respect. Still it is of no use. I am disappointed. This is not the republic I came to see; this is not the republic of my imagination. I infinitely prefer a liberal monarchy—even with its sickening accompaniments of court circulars—to such a government as this. The more I think of its youth and strength, the poorer and more trifling in a thousand aspects it appears in my eyes. In everything ...

— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens

... his name, Enjoy'd his labours and purloin'd his fame, And gave the Viceroy, from his high seat hurl'd. Chains for a crown, a prison for a world Long overwhelm'd in woes, and sickening there, He met the slow still march of black despair, Sought the last refuge from his hopeless doom, And wish'd from thankless men a peaceful tomb: Till vision'd ages, opening on his eyes, Cheer'd his sad soul, and bade new nations rise; He saw the Atlantic heaven with light o'ercast, ...

— The Columbiad • Joel Barlow

... of sickening dread though Jim was, he could not but realize that the scene before him was one of extraordinary beauty and pathos. The doomed Indians lifted up their voices in song. Never had they sung so ...

— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey

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