Sickening \Sick"en*ing\, a.
Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust;
nauseating. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb.
n. Sickening.]
1. To make sick; to disease.
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Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.
--Prior.
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2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken
the stomach.
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3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sickening
adj : causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating,
nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, vile]
WordNet (r) 2.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "sickening":
abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt,
beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crude,
despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fetid, forbidding,
foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble,
loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal,
miasmic, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious,
objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, overripe,
poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant,
repulsive, revolting, rotten, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity,
weevily, yucky
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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