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Webster 1913 Edition
Sicken
Sick′en
,Verb.
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 stomach3.
To impair; to weaken.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Sick′en
,Verb.
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. Shakespeare
3.
To become disgusting or tedious.
The toiling pleasure
sickens
into pain. Goldsmith.
4.
To become weak; to decay; to languish.
All pleasures
sicken
, and all glories sink. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sicken
SICKEN
,Verb.
T.
1. To make sick; to disease.
Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.
2. To make squeamish. It sickens the stomach.
3. To disgust. It sickens one to hear the fawning sycophant.
4. to impair. [Not in use.]