Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sicken"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sickened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Sickening}.]
1. To make sick; to disease.
Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.
--Prior.
2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken
the stomach.
3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sicken \Sick"en\, 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. --Bacon.
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. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sicken
v 1: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of [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
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