Sicken
['sɪk(ə)n] or ['sɪkən]
Definition
(verb.) get sick; 'She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital'.
(verb.) make sick or ill; 'This kind of food sickens me'.
(verb.) upset and make nauseated; 'The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach'; 'The mold on the food sickened the diners'.
Editor: Rosanne--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make sick; to disease.
(v. t.) To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
(v. t.) To impair; to weaken.
(v. i.) To become sick; to fall into disease.
(v. i.) To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
(v. i.) To become disgusting or tedious.
(v. i.) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
Checker: Wade
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Nauseate, make sick, turn one's stomach, make one's gorge rise.[2]. Disgust, weary.
v. n. [1]. Become sick, fall sick.[2]. Be disgusted, feel disgust.
Typist: Marcus
Examples
- Poor Juliet saw one by one, father, mother, brothers, and sisters, sicken and die. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But nearly all common plants, whatever they are, sicken and die if deprived of sunlight for a long time. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- How his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At any rate he sickened, and after opposing to the malady a taciturn resistance for a day or two, was obliged to keep his chamber. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet none of the defaced human forms which I distinguished, could be Raymond; so I turned my eyes away, while my heart sickened within me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After a bout of hard drinking in Babylon a sudden fever came upon Alexander (323 B.C.), and he sickened and died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was very malignant, and the looks of her attendants prognosticated the worst event. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- One by one they sickened and died, until only one man was left, the writer of the letter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- How had I sickened over their anticipation! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That of the sprouts in the face of the old women sickens me, the gypsy said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As the individual sickens and dies, so certain species become rare and extinct. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The aspect of piteous distress on his face, almost as imploring a merciful and kind judgment from his child, gave her a sudden sickening. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The concussion nearly capsized her, and with a sickening plunge she hurtled downward through the dark night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- She thought with sickening despondency, that that friend--the only one, the one who had felt such a regard for her--was fallen away. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The first idea that presented itself to her was, that all this sickening alarm on Frederick's behalf was over; that the strain was past. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They try at other shops in the interior of London, with faint sickening hopes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It's all over, said he, with a groan of sickening remorse. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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