Sicken /(?)/

Sick·en

Sicken

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening

  1. To make sick; to disease.
    Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.
  2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
  3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.]

Sicken

v. i.
  1. To become sick; to fall into disease.
    The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.
  2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
    Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
  3. To become disgusting or tedious.
    The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
  4. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
    All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.