SICKEN

v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] Shak.

4.
v.

To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.

5.
v.

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.

6.
v.

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

7.
v.

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

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