as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
sickened by the awful sight of the polluted river
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Recent Examples of sicken
Police in Broomfield, Colorado, opened an investigation after multiple hot dogs laced with methamphetamine were found in a family’s yard and sickened at least two dogs, according to a press release.
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Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
The Gardners were on a family vacation when Miller Gardner died and Brett Gardner and others were sickened.
—ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
In early January, the CDC reported that an outbreak on board a Holland America cruise ship had sickened more than 80 people after departing from Fort Lauderdale at the end of December.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
Over the course of the outbreak, more than 8,000 people were sickened and nearly 800 died in over 37 countries.
—Kate Perez, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
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Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
The Gardners were on a family vacation when Miller Gardner died and Brett Gardner and others were sickened.
—ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
In early January, the CDC reported that an outbreak on board a Holland America cruise ship had sickened more than 80 people after departing from Fort Lauderdale at the end of December.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
Over the course of the outbreak, more than 8,000 people were sickened and nearly 800 died in over 37 countries.
—Kate Perez, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sicken
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The researchers also found that being young, female, and well educated increased the odds that someone would be moist averse, as did being disgusted more generally by bodily functions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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Some were disgusted, while others were filled with joy.—
Amethyst Martinez,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
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Floyd, distraught by his own physical failures, is nevertheless repulsed by the sight of Carol in her big, burly ump gear.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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In the mid-19th century, Kasanje was able to repulse a Portuguese military expedition.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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Hiram Crombie is shocked and appalled that Jamie is taking the Trading Post from him and kicking him and the other men off Fraser’s Ridge?—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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The proposal appalled the science community and lawmakers.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
9 Apr. 2026
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The smell was overwhelming, a nauseating mix of rotting food, burning plastic, chemicals and decay that clung to my clothes and skin.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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The authors cited this year, each selected by a previous National Book Foundation honoree, write about the New York art world in the ’90s, the nauseating grip of social media, and the line between fable and fact in Hawaiian life.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
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Its founder, Samuel Hahnemann, was a physician horrified by the harm the conventional medicine of his time was causing.—
Phil Starks,
The Conversation,
21 Apr. 2026
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In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her.—
Nathan Rott,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Sicken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sicken. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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