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sickening adjective [ ˈsɪkənɪŋ ]

• causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust.
• "a sickening stench of blood"
Similar: nauseating, stomach-turning, stomach-churning, repulsive, revolting, disgusting, repellent, repugnant, appalling, abominable, hideous, horrible, awful, dreadful, terrible, obnoxious, nauseous, vile, nasty, foul, loathsome, offensive, objectionable, off-putting, distasteful, disagreeable, uninviting, abhorrent, despicable, reprehensible, contemptible, odious, heinous, obscene, hateful, execrable, gruesome, grisly, vomitous, sick-making, ghastly, putrid, horrid, godawful, gross, gut-churning, yucky, icky, cringe-making, beastly, bogging, skanky, noisome, disgustful, loathly, rebarbative,
Opposite: wholesome, delightful,

sicken verb

• make (someone) feel disgusted or appalled.
• "she was sickened by the bomb attack"
Similar: nauseate, make someone feel nauseous, make someone sick, turn someone's stomach, make someone's gorge rise, make someone's stomach rise, revolt, disgust, appal, repel, repulse, be repugnant to, offend, make someone want to throw up, gross out,
• become ill.
• "Dawson sickened unexpectedly and died in 1916"
Similar: become ill, fall ill, be taken ill, be taken sick, catch something, relapse, have/suffer a relapse, worsen, deteriorate, weaken, fail, sink,
Opposite: recover,


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