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sicken |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sickened}; p. pr & vb n. {Sickening}.] 1. To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. --Prior. 2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as to sicken the stomach. 3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sicken \Sick"en\, v. i. 1. To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. --Bacon. 2. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sicken v 1: cause aversion in offend the moral sense of [syn: {disgust}, {revolt}, {nauseate}, {churn up}] 2: get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" [syn: {come down}] 3: make sick or nauseated; turn one's stomach [syn: {nauseate}] 4: make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me
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