Sicken

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  • transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become sick. synonym: disgust.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fall sick; fall into ill health; become ill: used of persons, animals, or plants: as, the fowl sickened; the vine sickened.
  • To experience a sickening sensation; feel nauseated or disgusted: as, to sicken at the sight of squalor.
  • To lose force or vitality; become weakened, impaired, or deteriorated: said of things (in technical use, especially of mercury: compare mortification, 1 ).
  • To make sick; bring into a disordered state or condition; affect with disease, or (more commonly) with some temporary disorder or indisposition, as nausea, vertigo, or languor: as, the bad odors sickened him.
  • To make mentally sick; cause to feel nauseating contempt or disgust. See sickening.
  • To make nauseatingly weary (of) or dissatisfied (with); cause a disgusted dislike in: with of: as, this sickened him of his bargain.
  • To bring into an unsettled or disordered state; impair; impoverish: said of things.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become sick; to fall into disease.
  • intransitive verb. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
  • intransitive verb. To become disgusting or tedious.
  • intransitive verb. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
  • transitive verb. To make sick; to disease.
  • transitive verb. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust.
  • transitive verb. To impair; to weaken.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make ill.
  • verb. To become ill.
  • verb. To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
  • verb. To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
  • verb. To become disgusting or tedious.
  • verb. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. upset and make nauseated
  • verb. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
  • verb. make sick or ill
  • verb. get sick
  • Word Usage
    "The chronicler stated simply that "the following month [August] Louis, the son of King Philip, began to sicken from a most serious illness, which is called dysentery by the physicians.""
    Hypernym
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    disgust  gross out  repel  revolt  
    Rhyme
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    Same Context
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    agonize  dizzy  eerie  horrible  horrid  
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    verb-form