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Webster 1913 Edition
Sicken
Sick′en
,Verb.
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 stomach3.
To impair; to weaken.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Sick′en
,Verb.
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. Shakespeare
3.
To become disgusting or tedious.
The toiling pleasure
sickens
into pain. Goldsmith.
4.
To become weak; to decay; to languish.
All pleasures
sicken
, and all glories sink. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sicken
SICKEN
,Verb.
T.
1. To make sick; to disease.
Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.
2. To make squeamish. It sickens the stomach.
3. To disgust. It sickens one to hear the fawning sycophant.
4. to impair. [Not in use.]
Definition 2024
sicken
sicken
English
Verb
sicken (third-person singular simple present sickens, present participle sickening, simple past and past participle sickened)
- (transitive) To make ill.
- The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
- (intransitive) To become ill.
- I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
- Francis Bacon
- The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.
- (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
- His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
- (sports) To lower the standing of.
- 2007, Euan Reedie, Alan Shearer: Portrait Of A Legend - Captain Fantastic, ISBN 178418523X:
- Whenever I get booed by opposition fans it only makes me more determined to sicken them.
- 2011, Scott Burns, Walter Smith the Ibrox Gaffer: A Tribute to a Rangers Legend:
- But instead of giving up, the Rangers team managed to grab a dramatic later winner from Kenny Miller to sicken St Mirren and lift the cup
- 2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in (Please provide the title of the work), BBC Sport:
- City took control, pinning a tiring Celtic back and threatening to sicken them with a winner.
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- (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
- Shakespeare
- Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
- Shakespeare
- (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
- Goldsmith
- The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
- Goldsmith
- (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
- Alexander Pope
- All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.
- Alexander Pope
Translations
to make ill
to be or become ill
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Swedish
Pronoun
sicken, sicket, sicka/sickna
- (colloquial) what a; expresses a (often strong) feeling such as surprise, disappointment; liking, disliking
- Sicken dag!
- What a day!
- Sicken dag!
Synonyms
- vilken
- vicken