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verb

Sicken v. t. (past & past part. sickened; pres. part. sickening)

1.

To make sick; to disease. "Raise this strength, and sicken that to death."

2.

To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.

3.

To impair; to weaken. (Obs.)

Sicken 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."

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."

3.

To become disgusting or tedious. "The toiling pleasure sickens into pain."

4.

To become weak; to decay; to languish. "All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink."

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"Sicken" Quotes from Famous Books

... surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die] [W: app'tite, Love] It is true, we do not talk of the death of appetite, because we do not ordinarily speak in the figurative language of poetry; but that appetite sickens by a surfeit is ...

— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson

... that we are so far advanced on our road homewards, that soon we shall be at Paris, and Paris is to do wonders—Paris and Dr. R** are to set me up again, as the phrase is. But I shall never be set up again, I shall never live to reach Paris; none can tell how I sicken at the very name of that detested place; none seem aware how fast, how very fast the principle of life is burning away within me: but why should I speak? and what earthly help can now avail me? I can suffer in silence, I can conceal ...

— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson

... them and support themselves by raising poultry. Men are making handsome incomes from this business—women can do the same. The language of the poultry magazines, by the way, is equally sentimental and efflorescent with that of the speeches at agricultural fairs, sufficiently so to sicken one who has once accepted it as reliable, as for instance: "The individual must be very abnormal in his tastes if they can not be catered to by our feathered tribe." "To their owner they are a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Their ways are ...

— Adopting An Abandoned Farm • Kate Sanborn

... is a lawyer, shall try to find out your friends. He may be able to succeed though Captain Grimes could not. I wonder he did not apply to my father, as, from my having been sent on board his ship, the captain must have known him. I suspect that they wanted to sicken me of a sea life, and so sent me on board the Naiad; but they were mistaken; and now when they hear that she has gone down—if we are not picked up—how sorry they ...

— Tales of the Sea - And of our Jack Tars • W.H.G. Kingston

... rotten profession for a man, and not precisely a soul-saving one for a woman. But it gives you your opportunity; and, at bottom, I suppose that's the main thing one asks of life—one's opportunity. Too, your art is your art; and if it is bred in you, you sicken for it. I was awfully glad that night to see you at the play, though in a way it shocked me. It seemed incongruous. Tell me, do you ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

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