Word family noun sick the sick sickness sicko adjective sick sickening sickly verb sicken adverb sickeningly sickly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsickensick‧en /ˈsɪkən/ verb 1 [transitive]DISGUSTING to make you feel shocked and angry, especially because you strongly disapprove of something SYN disgust The thought of such cruelty sickened her. All decent people should be sickened by such a pointless waste of life.2 [intransitive] old-fashionedILL to gradually become very ill The older people just sickened and died as food supplies ran low. → be sickening for something → sicken of something→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
sicken• Many of our people sickened and died, and we buried them in this strange land.• "Some of the recent attacks on horses in this area are enough to sicken anyone, " a police spokesman said.• They tell me their communities are sickened by this latest outrage.• The smell of the blood sickened her and she ran out of the room.• It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it.• The stench of blood and waste sickened him.• A gas attack in the main train station sickened hundreds of people.• I had heard them complaining of how nauseated they felt, how the very thought of food sickened them. 