Definition of sicken Sicken

/sɪˈkʌn/ - [sikun] - sick•en

We found 20 definitions of sicken from 5 different sources.

What does sicken mean?

Verb sickens, sickening, sickened
sicken - get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
		come down
		worsen, decline grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
		wan become pale and sickly
		contract, get, take be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
		canker infect with a canker
sicken - upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"
		nauseate, turn one's stomach
		disgust, gross out, revolt, repel cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
sicken - make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"
		harm cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system"
		gag, choke make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
sicken - cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
		disgust, revolt, nauseate, churn up
		repulse, repel force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
		scandalise, scandalize, appal, appall, outrage, offend, shock subject to electrical shocks

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sicken (v. t.)
To make sick; to disease.
sicken (v. t.)
To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
sicken (v. t.)
To impair; to weaken.
sicken (v. i.)
To become sick; to fall into disease.
sicken (v. i.)
To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
sicken (v. i.)
To become disgusting or tedious.
sicken (v. i.)
To become weak; to decay; to languish.