'Sicken' definitions:

Definition of 'sicken'

From: WordNet
verb
Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up]
verb
Get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" [syn: sicken, come down]
verb
Upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach]
verb
Make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"

Definition of 'Sicken'

From: GCIDE
  • Sicken \Sick"en\, v. i.
  • 1. To become sick; to fall into disease. [1913 Webster]
  • The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. [1913 Webster]
  • Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To become disgusting or tedious. [1913 Webster]
  • The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To become weak; to decay; to languish. [1913 Webster]
  • All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sicken'

From: GCIDE
  • Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.]
  • 1. To make sick; to disease. [1913 Webster]
  • Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sicken'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Sicken'