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Become ill
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sicken
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sickening thud ▪ His head hit the floor with a sickening thud . PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES sickening thud/crash/sound etc ▪ Her heart took up a sickening thud. ▪ One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "to become ill," from sick (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive sense of "to make sick" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Sickened ; sickening . The earlier verb was simply sick (Old English seocan ) "to be ill, fall ill."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make ill. 2 (context intransitive English) To become ill. 3 (context transitive English) To fill with disgust or abhorrence. 4 (context intransitive English) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence. 5 (context intransitive ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust , revolt , nauseate , churn up ] get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" [syn: come down ] upset and make nauseated; "The ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sicken \Sick"en\, v. i. To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. --Bacon. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; ...
Usage examples of sicken.
From across the cell Alec heard the soft, sickening snap of joints separating.
Sickened by the carnage, he turned away, taking a swig from his flask of aquavit to try to steady his stomach.
Alaire had a sickening feeling that the Arachs had come to the end of their patience.
But even if His body had sickened and dissolved in the sight of all men, it was not befitting Him who healed the infirmities of others to have his own body afflicted with the same.
Meanwhile we exhausted ourselves in efforts to get at the heart of the mystery, and after a couple of years had gone by I could see that Vivian begall to sicken a little of the adventure, and one night he told me with some emotion that he feared both our lives were being passed away in idle and hopeless endeavour.
The act of eating, however, with all its gustatory noises, the stinking belch that filled the cavern, the rubbing of the behemothian stomach-all this, all at once, horrifying and sickening both.
He floated, bodiless in the featureless void, and when the urge to cry out could no longer be denied he lost himself in sickened terror at the realization that he had no mouth to shout with, no voice to raise.
King William had come over before the Battle of the Boyne he had brought fresh recruits to replace the ones who had sickened and died over the winter, but not enough of the sort Bob favored.
Tally began to anticipate the sickening jolt of her bungee jacket pulling her up.
It had finally been swept aside by the forces of an increasingly nervous secular state empowered by a sickened populace, but its name lingered as a byword for terror, sadism and savagery, and all that is foul in human nature.
With sickening thuds, axes joined the cacophonous din of death and cleaved helms, opened skulls, spilled brains.
We hit with a sickening crash that seemed to stun her, and which threw Chubby and me to the deck.
In a second, every reservation he had ever had about marriage, in general, and Dolce, in particular, swept over him, filling him with a sickening panic.
Sickened, he knew that Glair must have jumped to her death, and at the loss of one of his mates he felt an anguish far more terrible than he had ever known.
The head fell out of the tree and landed on the body with a sickening glump, and I woke up.