Read full poem →Yours has been a slighter ailment, will you sicken
for her sake ?
Dictionary Entry
To make someone feel ill or disgusted.
In a Sentence
“The smell of the rotting food was so strong it began to sicken everyone in the room.”
Origin
Middle English, from Old English *sēoc* (sick).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “sicken”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →By grey December's breath,
These lordlier growths that sicken
And die for fear of death
Read full poem →Girt about with shadow, blind and lame,
Ghosts of things that smite and thoughts that sicken
Hunt and hound thee down to death and shame.
Read full poem →How light of heart and innocent
That loveliness which sicken’d hope
And wore the world for ornament!
Read full poem →And witnessed the desire and the despair
Of souls that passed reluctantly and sicken for the air;
You, too, have entered Hell,
Read full poem →For sky, nothing but sky.
I sicken of the woods
And all the multitudes
Read full poem →I'm wearied with thy painted freaks,
And sicken at such vanities:
Be roses fine as eer they will,
Read full poem →You've got an odd something—a kind of discerning—
A relish—a taste—sicken'd over by learning;
At least, it's your temper, as very well known,
Read full poem →You’ve got an odd something—a kind of discerning—
A relish—a taste—sicken’d over by learning; 120
At least, it’s your temper, as very well known,
Read full poem →Unwholesome, and if all my Life to come
Should sicken from one momentary Sweet!"