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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sicken \Sick"en\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sickened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sickening}.]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sickening \Sick"en*ing\, adjective Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- {Sick"en*ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sickening
adjective: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: {nauseating}, {nauseous}, {noisome}, {loathsome}, {offensive}, {vile}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "sickening": abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, overripe, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky
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