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sickening   (TTS Sound)

The verb sicken has 4 senses

• disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up -- (cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us")


• sicken, come down -- (get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital")


• sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach -- (upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners")


• sicken -- (make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me")

The adj sickening has 1 sense

• nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile -- (causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench")