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词汇 sicken
释义 sicken
verb
uk /ˈsɪk.ən/ us /ˈsɪk.ən/

sickenverb (ILL)


[ I ]
to become ill: 生病,得病
literaryThe child sickened and died.那孩子生病死了。
UK"You look feverish. Are you sickening for(= about to become ill with) something?"“你好像在发烧。你生什么病了吗?”
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Being & falling ill
acquire
be a martyr to somethingidiom
be green around the gillsidiom
be hangingidiom
be laid upidiom
be out of sortsidiom
bring
declension
develop
lay someone up
martyr
not a hundred percentidiom
pick
pick someone/something up
predisposed
serious
shiver
strike
succumb
upset

sickenverb (UNPLEASANT)


[ T ]
to cause someone to feel unpleasant emotions, especially anger and shock: 使难受;使愤怒;使震惊
The violence in the film sickened me.电影中的暴力让我十分反感。
He was sickened by/at the number of people who were hurt in the crash.飞机失事中的受伤人数之多令他感到震惊。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people sad, shocked and upset
aback
amiss
appal
be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom
bite
bum
gnaw
haunt
heartbreaker
heartbreakingly
hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
nerve
self-lacerating
self-laceration
sensitivity
shake someone out of something
shake someone up
shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom
tear
toxic

sicken | American Dictionary


sicken
verb
us/ˈsɪk·ən/

sickenverb (BECOME ILL)


[ I ]
to become sick:
The animals sickened and died.

sickenverb (CAUSE TO FEEL BAD)


[ T ]
to cause someone to experience unpleasant feelings such as shock and anger:
I was sickened by the attitude of people who could take enjoyment in the building’s destruction.

Examples of sicken


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We all understand why they had to start, but their triumphalism has certainly sickened us.
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The growth of human rights groups has shown that many people in the country are now entirely sickened by the conflict.
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All of us will have been sickened at various moments when we have read of some new atrocious crime committed against women or children.
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Nothing sickens us more than to see money wasted.
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Management has been so sickened by the pressures imposed upon it that it has been looking for some respite from these grave labour problems.
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Everyone is totally sickened by these crimes which have continued for so long.
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They do not know what it is all about and it just sickens them.
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We were all shocked, alarmed and sickened at the savagery which was unleashed before our eyes.
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One aspect of the continuing argument with certain sections of the tobacco industry still sickens me.
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What does that person not expect to see and what causes that person to be horrified and sickened?
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The fact that he surrounds himself with religious fundamentalists sickens me.
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One thing which has sickened me is the way in which patients are treated almost as if they were a nuisance.
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We are also sickened by the hypocrisy in the world in failing to deal with it.
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I have been sickened by modern party political battles which are so much less civilised than they were in my day.
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I have been a little sickened by the argument about personal freedom.
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