sickenverb
uk/ˈsɪk.ən/us/ˈsɪk.ən/sicken verb (ILL)
[ I ] to become ill:
literary The child sickened and died.
UK "You look feverish. Are you sickening for (= about to become ill with) something?"
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Being & falling ill
- ail
- be green around the gills idiom
- be laid up idiom
- be out of sorts idiom
- break
- bring
- burned out
- burnt out
- catch your death of cold idiom
- come down with sth
- declension
- food
- KO
- pick sth up
- pneumonia
- prone
- relapse
- shivery
- strike
- upset
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sicken verb (UNPLEASANT)
[ T ] to cause someone to feel unpleasant emotions, especially anger and shock:
The violence in the film sickened me.
He was sickened by/at the number of people who were hurt in the crash.
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Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- burn
- haunt
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- take sb aback
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
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