Word Direct Answers

What does "sicken" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. 3.To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.
  3. 4.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. Shak.
  4. 5.To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith.
  5. 6.To become weak; to decay; to languish. All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope.

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