| sicken | 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. Origin: Sickened; Sickening. 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) 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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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