sickened

[US]/'sikən/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

v. become ill; cause to feel disgusted; cause to feel tired of

adj. being ill; causing disgust.

feeling sickened

she was sickened by the bomb attack.

he sickened at the thought.

a fetid odor that sickened the hospital workers.

he was sickened by the thought of others having been intimate with her.

Dawson sickened unexpectedly and died in 1916.

When they burned the martyrs, the smoke which blew from the stake sickened men of popery more than anything else.

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