GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Sicken , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.]
   To make sick; to disease.
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   Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.
   Prior.
   
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   To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
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   To impair; to weaken. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   Sicken, v. i.
   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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   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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   To become disgusting or tedious.
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   The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
   Goldsmith.
   
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   To become weak; to decay; to languish.
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   All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.
   Pope.
   
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