Sicken: Definition and part of speech

Sicken

  1. v. i. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
  2. v. t. To make sick; to disease.
  3. v. t. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
  4. v. t. To impair; to weaken.
  5. v. i. To become sick; to fall into disease.
  6. v. i. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
  7. v. i. To become disgusting or tedious.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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