sicken
sicken is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make sick; to disease. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To make sick; to disease.
- transitive verb. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
- transitive verb. To impair; to weaken.
- intransitive verb. To become sick; to fall into disease.
- intransitive verb. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
- intransitive verb. To become disgusting or tedious.
- intransitive verb. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
- verb. get sick
"She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
- verb. make sick or ill
"This kind of food sickens me"
- verb. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
"The pornographic pictures sickened us"
- verb. upset and make nauseated
"The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"
"The mold on the food sickened the diners"
Synonyms
Common word forms
sickens, sickened, sickener, sickening
Words from these letters
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