Word Finder - sickening

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To make ill.

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The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.

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To become ill.

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I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.

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To fill with disgust or abhorrence.

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His arrogant behaviour sickens me.

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To lower the standing of.

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To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.

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To become disgusting or tedious.

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To become weak; to decay; to languish.

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The act of making somebody sick.

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Causing sickness or disgust.

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Amazing, fantastic.

A sickening feeling starts to grow from the pit of my stomach.

She saw smoke moving across the sky a moment before the helicopter rolled and began its sickening maneuvers again.

Her surroundings blurred into light and shadows, and she felt the sickening sense of falling off the cliff again.

The pod dropped fast toward the surface, the sight of the spinning world beneath her sickening.

With a sickening sound, the bush ripped from the ground, allowing her to slide again.

The thought was sickening.

The colonists too, taught by the sickening delay and the ruinous cost of the war to revert to conciliatory methods, had by this time granted the natives special representation in parliament.

He well remarked that the debility and sickening of Europeans in many tropical countries are wrongly ascribed to the climate, but are rather the consequences of indolence, sensual gratification and an irregular mode of life.

Like many people who are bullied, she felt she could not escape and found the whole experience sickening.

The production has more of an uptempo Motown " Quiet Storm " feel to it, than the usual sickening 80s bombast.

She watched him with the sickening certainty that if he got away she could never survive the years of suspense until his inevitable return.

It's nice to welcome him back to the Bridge but to cheer him when he scored an equalizer against us was just sickening.

This ruling is a sickening reminder of the institutional homophobia in Britain today.

It's also a very common misperception, a lie allowed to persist by G****e's sickening mendacity.

Wonderful, and the same time truly sickening in only ways that an ode to gravy can be!

The continuous crack and thud of bullets was quite sickening.

I've got to check with my manager, I've got to check with... " so sickening.

From this point onward, events happened at a rather sickening pace.

They all deserve what they have got, but it is very sickening to see certain other names in the same lists.

Dad landed with yet another sickening thud, this time at the base of his spine.

That the Japanese continue their sickening trade under the excuse it's all scientific research is just two-faced lies.

It 's sickening to think back to how I was and what I ate.

This has been so sickening to watch him use the hell out of you !

How sickening to hear so many Americans cheering to such utter trash.

This I can tell you with a sickening certainty.

Anthony Vickers ' Blog England exit is crying shame - It 's the most sickening sight in football.

At approximately 3.00 am there was a sickening crash which wakened everyone instantly.

Ako pushed his way through and delivered a sickening blow to the beast 's head.

Wonderful, and the same time truly sickening in only ways that an ode to gravy can be !

I 've got to check with my manager, I 've got to check with... So sickening.

That the Japanese continue their sickening trade under the excuse it 's all scientific research is just two-faced lies.

Even with all these disadvantages in mind, including the awful, sickening fragrance and taste, I leave the lipstick on.

The shower scene in Psycho is remembered as one of the most frightening and sickening thirty seconds or so ever shot, but has almost no gore at all by today's standards.

The ground gave way under her foot, and with a sickening lurch of her heart, she plunged downward.

One of the greatest difficulties in the treatment of gold by amalgamation, and more particularly in the treatment of pyrites, arises from the so-called " sickening " or " flouring " of the mercury; that is, the particles, losing their bright metallic surfaces, are no longer capable of coalescing with or taking up other metals.

The ordinary pleasures of festivals were mingled with all this, such as dances in beast-masks, sham fights and children's games, but the type of a religious function was a sickening butchery followed by a cannibal feast.

And the fear of death and of the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one feeling of sickening agitation.

This different treatment shows the feeling of the poet - the feeling for which he seeks to evoke our inmost sympathy - to oscillate between the belief that an awful crime brings with it its awful punishment (and it is sickening to observe how the argument by which the Friar persuades Annabella to forsake her evil courses mainly appeals to the physical terrors of retribution), and the notion that there is something fatal, something irresistible, and therefore in a sense self-justified, in so dominant a passion.

The pod jolted and dropped, the sickening sense making her nauseous.

Kris heard the sickening sound of the demon.s body breaking from the distance and watched the other demons shapeshift to charge the half-demon.

It is also stated that sodium prevents both the " sickening " and the " flouring " of the mercury which is produced by certain associated minerals.