Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become sick. synonym: disgust.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make sick; to disease.
- transitive verb To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust.
- transitive verb obsolete To impair; to weaken.
- 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
ill . - verb intransitive To become ill.
- verb transitive To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
- verb intransitive To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
- verb intransitive To become disgusting or tedious.
- verb intransitive To become weak; to decay; to languish.
from 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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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."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Now Rabbi Yoffie says wars "sicken" him, even the wars he supports.
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After enduring sufferings such as sicken one in the bare recital the remnant staggered into the settlements, more dead than alive.
Reminiscences of a Pioneer William Thompson
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After enduring sufferings such as sicken one in the bare recital the remnant staggered into the settlements, more dead than alive.
Reminiscences of a Pioneer Thompson, William, Colonel 1912
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WASHINGTON —The Food and Drug Administration has decided to ban some uses of a class of antibiotics on livestock out of concern that bacteria that sicken humans are becoming resistant to the drugs.
FDA to Ban Some Antibiotics for Livestock Bill Tomson 2012
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The Food and Drug Administration will ban some uses of antibiotics in cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys out of concern that food-borne bacteria that can sicken humans are becoming resistant to the drugs.
FDA Moves to Restrict Use of Antibiotics in Livestock Bill Tomson 2012
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Senators Coburn, Sessions, Kyl, Graham, et. al, sicken me with their condescension and rudeness to Judge Sotomayor.
Sotomayor: Judges have different task than what citizens expect 2009
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Not drive them out, not sicken them, but kill them.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Here, Sheldon Harris reported, they would have to eat food laced with one of 31 germs — anthrax-filled chocolate, plague-treated cookies, typhus-infected beer — or be injected directly with deadly pathogens to determine the minimal dose required to sicken or kill them.
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Here, Sheldon Harris reported, they would have to eat food laced with one of 31 germs — anthrax-filled chocolate, plague-treated cookies, typhus-infected beer — or be injected directly with deadly pathogens to determine the minimal dose required to sicken or kill them.
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