sicken

IPA: sˈɪkʌn

verb

  • (transitive) To make ill.
  • (intransitive) To become ill.
  • (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
  • (sports) To lower the standing of.
  • (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
  • (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
  • (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
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Examples of "sicken" in Sentences

  • This is sickening him.
  • Mushrooms sicken pets.
  • The show sickens Harry.
  • The level of hypocrisy is sickening.
  • As usual, the hypocrisy is sickening.
  • The degree of exploitation is sickening.
  • The vilification of others is sickening.
  • That truly is a sickening view of the World.
  • The hypocrisy and double standards are sickening.
  • Again, the lack of neutrality on here is sickening.
  • Not drive them out, not sicken them, but kill them.
  • Now Rabbi Yoffie says wars "sicken" him, even the wars he supports.
  • Senators Coburn, Sessions, Kyl, Graham, et. al, sicken me with their condescension and rudeness to Judge Sotomayor.
  • After enduring sufferings such as sicken one in the bare recital the remnant staggered into the settlements, more dead than alive.
  • The chronicler stated simply that "the following month [August] Louis, the son of King Philip, began to sicken from a most serious illness, which is called dysentery by the physicians."
  • WASHINGTON —The Food and Drug Administration has decided to ban some uses of a class of antibiotics on livestock out of concern that bacteria that sicken humans are becoming resistant to the drugs.
  • The Food and Drug Administration will ban some uses of antibiotics in cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys out of concern that food-borne bacteria that can sicken humans are becoming resistant to the drugs.
  • Here, Sheldon Harris reported, they would have to eat food laced with one of 31 germs — anthrax-filled chocolate, plague-treated cookies, typhus-infected beer — or be injected directly with deadly pathogens to determine the minimal dose required to sicken or kill them.

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