Antonyms for sicken
ˈsɪk ənsick·en

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1. • Disgust
   • Harm
   • Repel
   • Worsen

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1. disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn upverb

   cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

   "The pornographic pictures sickened us"

   Synonyms:
   churn up, nauseate, come down, turn one's stomach, repel, disgust, revolt, gross out

2. sicken, come downverb

   get sick

   "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"

   Synonyms:
   fall, churn up, descend, come down, turn one's stomach, go down, nauseate, precipitate, disgust, reduce, revolt, boil down

3. sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomachverb

   upset and make nauseated

   "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"

   Synonyms:
   disgust, churn up, revolt, nauseate, turn one's stomach, come down

4. sickenverb

   make sick or ill

   "This kind of food sickens me"

   Synonyms:
   disgust, churn up, revolt, nauseate, turn one's stomach, come down

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1. sickenverb

   Synonyms:
   nauseate, disgust, pall, surfeit, decay, languish

How to use sicken in a sentence?

1. Dorothy Parker:

   They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

2. James R. Cook:

   Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

3. William Shakespeare:

   If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die

4. Dorothy Parker:

   They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

5. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

   Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

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