Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

sickeningmore about sickening

sickening


  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]: 
 
  Sickening  \Sick"en*ing\,  a. 
  Causing  sickness;  specif.,  causing  surfeit  or  disgust; 
  nauseating.  --  {Sick"en*ing*ly},  adv 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sickening 
  adj  :  causing  or  able  to  cause  nausea;  "a  nauseating  smell"; 
  "nauseous  offal";  "a  sickening  stench"  [syn:  {nauseating}, 
  {nauseous},  {noisome},  {loathsome},  {offensive},  {vile}] 




more about sickening