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Pronunciation : Sick"en
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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. [Obs.] Shak.

t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Sick"en
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913