Sick"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.]
1.
To make sick; to disease.
Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.
Prior.
2.
To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
3.
To impair; to weaken.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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Sick"en, v. i.
1.
To become sick; to fall into disease.
The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.
Bacon.
2.
To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
Shak.
3.
To become disgusting or tedious.
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
Goldsmith.
4.
To become weak; to decay; to languish.
All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.
Pope.
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