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Sicken   /sˈɪkən/   Listen
verb
Sicken  v. t.  (past & past part. sickened; pres. part. sickening)  
1.
To make sick; to disease. "Raise this strength, and sicken that to death."
2.
To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
3.
To impair; to weaken. (Obs.)


Sicken  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."
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."
3.
To become disgusting or tedious. "The toiling pleasure sickens into pain."
4.
To become weak; to decay; to languish. "All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink."





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"Sicken" Quotes from Famous Books



... anything will sicken and disgust a man, it is the affected, mincing way in which some people choose to talk. It is perfectly nauseous. If these young jackanapes, who screw their words into all manner of diabolical shapes, could only feel how perfectly disgusting they were, it might induce them to drop it. ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... day.—Died?—said the schoolmistress.—Certainly,—said I.—We die out of houses, just as we die out of our bodies. A commercial smash kills a hundred men's houses for them, as a railroad crash kills their mortal frames and drives out the immortal tenants. Men sicken of houses until at last they quit them, as the soul leaves its body when it is tired of its infirmities. The body has been called "the house we live in"; the house is quite as much the body we live in. Shall I tell you some things the Professor said ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various
... her that night. If Paula allowed demonstrations of love to escape her towards anybody it was towards Charlotte, and her instinct was at once to watch by the invalid's couch herself, at least for some hours, it being deemed unnecessary to call in a regular nurse unless she should sicken further. ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... Summers sicken, flowers fail and die, all beauty but rides round the ring and out at the portal; even so Coralie passed in her turn, poised sideways, panting, on her steed; lightly swayed as a tulip-bloom, bowing on this side and on that as she disappeared; ...
— Dream Days • Kenneth Grahame
... Conall Carnach, though the women of Ulla sicken and droop for the love of him. Verily, it is not ...
— The Coming of Cuculain • Standish O'Grady


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