sicken

verb

ˈsi-kən How to pronounce sicken (audio)
Definition of sickennext
as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust sickened by the awful sight of the polluted river

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Recent Examples of sicken The news comes on the heels of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on New York City’s Upper East Side, around Museum Mile, which killed 11 people and sickened 94 this past summer. — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 Last year, another Legionnaires' outbreak in Harlem killed seven people and sickened dozens of others. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 Health officials ordered the immediate remediation of 10 rooftop cooling towers in the South Bronx after preliminary testing detected Legionella bacteria amid a growing Legionnaires’ disease cluster that has sickened nine people and left one dead. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2026 The toxic carcinogen known as 9/11 dust has sickened or killed more people in the 25 years since 9/11 than the number of people killed on that dark day. — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sicken
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sicken
  1. disgust
  2. repulse
  3. appall
  4. nauseate
  5. horrify
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  • But discussing the importance of a top-10 win in October seemed to disgust Drinkwitz.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2026
  • That is, Lamashtu spoke out about something that angered and disgusted the divine patriarch, and she was cast down to earth.
    — Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of disgust
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  • Her widowed aunt plays chaperone as Susanna attends heady lectures and repulses her many suitors.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Young people just aren’t interested, partly because they’re repulsed by bodily fluids.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of repulse
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  • Francis said she was appalled upon learning the result of the appeal two days into the current semester.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Smith died at the age of ninety-four in 2017, having seen many years of the internet gossip reporting that came after her and having been appalled by it.
    — Lindsey Weber, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of appall
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  • Many also feel nauseated, throw up or break out in a blotchy rash a few days in.
    — Andrés Henao, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Some of their stomachs endure the nauseating exercise without producing vomit.
    — Anya Armentrout, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of nauseate
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  • VanAntwerp has been horrified to see Kirk’s killing mocked online, sometimes menacingly.
    — Jacqueline Ganun, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • VanAntwerp has been horrified to see Kirk’s killing repeatedly, and sometimes menacingly, mocked online.
    — Jacqueline Ganun, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of horrify

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“Sicken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sicken. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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