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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

... in through the Gap that night, and in a "shack" of one room and a low loft a man was dead, a woman was sick to death, and four children were barely alive; and nobody even knew. For they were hill people, who sicken, suffer, and sometimes die, like animals, and ...

— 'Hell fer Sartain' and Other Stories • John Fox, Jr.

... humanity. They held a joint council and determined to make their victims dream of snakes twining about them in slimy folds and blowing their fetid breath in their faces, or to make them dream of eating raw or decaying fish, so that they would lose appetite, sicken, and die. Thus it is that snake and ...

— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... the other hand, your comrade is put in the vacant place. The duties are hard and perplexing. He is compelled to go and ask a man for some money. The man is mean. He not only refuses the money, but addresses some personal considerations to your comrade which sicken him to the heart. He returns to your employer with a tale of failure well tinged with his own morbid feelings and wounded vanity. Your employer is irritated, and attributes the fiasco to the ambassador. ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... of malady, I can brave danger with heroic firmness; but here I own and feel myself so much a coward, that not for worlds would I return and face that scene of unexampled horror. Back with me as I came; and, do I live to utter it? your arm. I sicken, ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 • Various

... would run back and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Would sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin would melt from earthly mould; Yea Hell itself would pass away, And leave its dolorous ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

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