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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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