sicken
/'sikn/
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Definition
Verb (transitive):
- To make someone feel ill or nauseated: To cause physical sickness or disgust.
- To cause strong feelings of disgust or revulsion: To offend someone's moral or aesthetic sensibilities deeply.
Verb (intransitive):
- To become ill: To start to feel unwell or to fall sick.
Examples of Usage
- Verb (transitive):
- The graphic violence in the movie sickened many viewers.
- The thought of eating raw meat sickens her.
- Verb (intransitive):
- He began to sicken shortly after returning from his trip.
- She sickened and died from the disease.
Advanced Usage
- "to sicken of something": To become weary, disgusted, or bored with something over time.
- He eventually sickened of the constant political infighting and resigned.
- "sickening for something" (British English, informal): To be in the early stages of an illness, showing initial symptoms.
- I think I'm sickening for a cold.
Variants and Related Words
- Sickening (adjective): Causing disgust or nausea.
- The sickening smell of decay filled the room.
- Sickener (noun, informal): Something that causes disgust or disappointment.
- That last-minute goal loss was a real sickener for the fans.
Synonyms
- Nauseate: To affect with nausea or disgust.
- Disgust: To cause a strong feeling of dislike or revulsion.
- Revolt: To cause to feel disgust.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Sicken of: (See "Advanced Usage" above). To grow tired or disgusted with.
- She sickened of his lies and left him.
Related Idioms
- To one's stomach: Often used with verbs like to express causing nausea, similar to .
- The hypocrisy turned my stomach. (Compare: The hypocrisy sickened me.)
Verb
- make sick or ill
- This kind of food sickens me
- upset and make nauseated
- The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach
- The mold on the food sickened the diners
- get sick
- She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
- The pornographic pictures sickened us