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sicken

verb
/ˈsɪkən/

Etymology

From Middle English sekenen, equivalent to sick + -en. Cognate with Danish sygne (“to pine”), Swedish sjukna (“to fall ill; become sick”), Norwegian sykne, Icelandic sjúkna (“to sicken; become sick”).

  1. inherited from sekenen

Definitions

  1. To make ill.

    • The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.

  2. To become ill.

    • I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
    • The judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those that attended,[…] sickened upon it and died.

  3. To fill with disgust or abhorrence.

    • His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To lower the standing of.

      • Whenever I get booed by opposition fans it only makes me more determined to sicken them.
      • But instead of giving up, the Rangers team managed to grab a dramatic later winner from Kenny Miller to sicken St Mirren and lift the cup
      • City took control, pinning a tiring Celtic back and threatening to sicken them with a winner.

    2. To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.

      • Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.

    3. To become disgusting or tedious.

      • The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.

    4. To become weak

      To become weak; to decay; to languish.

      • All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sicken. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sicken02disgust03loathing04loath05loathsome06sickening

A definitional loop anchored at sicken. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at sicken

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA