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sickening

verb
/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of sicken

  2. Causing sickness or disgust.

    • sickening cruelty
    • sickening toxic fumes

  3. Amazing, fantastic.

    • Richard Cranium does sickening stuff (if your budget permits), stones from Charles Brennan and lots of imagination.
    • Latrice lives every day by her mantra, “It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s OK to fall down. Get up, look sickening, and make them eat it!” Translation: rise above your downfalls in life, and always look amazing while dismissing the haters.
    • Back with the seventh season next March 2nd, RuPaul’s Drag Race promises to gather fans and followers in front of the computer to watch the new competition to crown the most sickening queen.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The act of making somebody sick.

      • In the Northeast, one porcini look-alike has been implicated in several sickenings. It is Boletus huronensis, and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.

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Derived

sickeningly, sickeningness, unsickening

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sickening. 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.

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

5 hops · closes at sickening

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