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   Sicken (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.]
   1. To make sick; to disease.
   
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   Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.
   
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   2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, “to sicken the stomach”.
   
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   3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.]  Shak.
   
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   Sicken, v. i.
   1. To become sick; to fall into disease.
   
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   The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.
   
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   2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
   
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   Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak.
   
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   3. To become disgusting or tedious.
   
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   The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith.
   
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   4. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
   
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   All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope.
   
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