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sicken

DEFINITIONS OF: sicken

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v make sick or ill

“This kind of food sickens me”
Types:
choke, gag
cause to retch or choke
Type of:
harm
cause or do harm to

v upset and make nauseated

“The mold on the food sickened the diners”
Synonyms:
nauseate, turn one's stomach
Type of:
disgust, gross out, repel, revolt
fill with distaste

v get sick

Synonyms:
come down
Types:
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wan
become pale and sickly
contract, get, take
be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
canker
become infected with a canker
catch
contract
Type of:
decline, worsen
grow worse

v cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

“The pornographic pictures sickened us”
Synonyms:
churn up, disgust, nauseate, revolt
Types:
appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock
strike with disgust or revulsion
Type of:
repel, repulse
be repellent to; cause aversion in
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