sicken
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsɪkən/
sicken (sickens, present participle sickening; 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.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- The judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of 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.
- (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
- (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
- (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
- Russian: заболева́ть
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