| 单词 | sicken |
| 释义 | sicken (once / 809 pages) v Things that sicken you make you feel upset or ill. It might sicken you to realize that you've hit a squirrel with your car. When things sicken you, they either make you feel terrible — disgusted or horrified — or they make you physically sick. Eating a piece of moldy bread or some potato salad that's been sitting in the sun too long will probably sicken you. Reading a story about childhood hunger and poverty in the newspaper can also sicken you. The earliest meaning of sicken was "fall ill," from an Old English root, seoc, "ill, diseased, weak, or troubled." WORD FAMILYsicken: sickened, sickening, sickens+/sick: sicked, sicken, sicker, sickest, sicking, sickish, sickness, sicks/sickening: sickeningly, sickeningness/sickish: sickishly/sickness: sicknesses USAGE EXAMPLES“That is the way they carry themselves. That is the way they act. It’s sickening.” Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) Locals say that the burning sickens entire villages with respiratory illnesses, and water that runs off the contaminated hillsides kills vegetation. Nature(Nov 29, 2016) The accolades that western leaders and pseudo-intellectuals are heaping on this despot are sickening. The Guardian(Nov 29, 2016) 1v make sick or ill This kind of food sickens me Hypo|Hyper choke, gag cause to retch or choke harm cause or do harm to 2v upset and make nauseated The mold on the food sickened the diners Syn|Hyper nauseate, turn one's stomach disgust, gross out, repel, revolt fill with distaste 3v get sick Syn|Hypo|Hyper come down wan become pale and sickly contract, get, takebe stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness cankerbecome infected with a canker catchcontract decline, worsen grow worse 4v cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of The pornographic pictures sickened us Syn|Hypo|Hyper churn up, disgust, nauseate, revolt appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock strike with disgust or revulsion repel, repulse be repellent to; cause aversion in |
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