Sicken

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sickened}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Sickening}.]
     1. To make sick; to disease.
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              Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.


                                                    --Prior.
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     2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken
        the stomach.
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     3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sicken \Sick"en\, v. i.
     1. To become sick; to fall into disease.
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              The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that
              attended, sickened upon it and died.  --Bacon.
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     2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to
        be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or
        satiated.
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              Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.    --Shak.
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     3. To become disgusting or tedious.
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              The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. --Goldsmith.
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     4. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
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              All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sicken
       v 1: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The
            pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: {disgust}, {revolt},
             {nauseate}, {churn up}]
       2: get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the
          hospital" [syn: {come down}]
       3: upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the foood turned the
          pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold ont he food sickened
          the diners" [syn: {nauseate}, {turn one's stomach}]
       4: make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "sicken":
     OD, affect, afflict, appall, be brought down, be felled,
     be struck down, be traumatized, break out, catch, catch cold,
     collapse, come down with, contract, debilitate, degenerate,
     derange, deteriorate, devitalize, disable, disgust, disimprove,
     disorder, enervate, enfeeble, erupt, fail, fall back, fever, get,
     get worse, give offense, go into shock, gross out, grow worse,
     horrify, hospitalize, incapacitate, indispose, invalid, lay up,
     let down, nauseate, offend, overdose, put off, put out, reduce,
     regress, relapse, reluct, repel, repulse, retrograde, retrogress,
     revolt, run a temperature, shock, slacken, slip back, take,
     take ill, turn, turn the stomach, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weaken,
     worsen