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Definition of Sickening
1. Adjective. Causing or able to cause nausea. "A sickening stench"
Similar to: Unwholesome
Derivative terms: Loathsomeness, Nauseatingness, Nausea, Noisomeness, Offend, Offensiveness, Sickeningness, Vileness
Definition of Sickening
1. a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.
Definition of Sickening
1. Adjective. Causing sickness or disgust. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of sicken) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sickening
1. sicken [v] - See also: sicken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickening
Literary usage of Sickening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stamp Milling of Gold Ores by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1897)
""Sickening" and "flouring" are the terms used, but with a confusing ... In the
same way the reactions which produce the ''sickening" of mercury are but ..."
2. The Stamp Milling of Gold Ores by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1909)
""Sickening" and "flouring" are the terms used, but with a confusing ... In the
same way the reactions which produce the u sickening " of mercury are but ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The tone of these romances is characterized by a combination of sickening
affectation of style and a crude coarseness of material. (Cf. Krumbacher, 313, 318 ..."
4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Beds" — Sickening Sights — Cellar Scenes — Rum Three Cents a Glass—"It's the
Vermin that's the Worst" — Standing up all Night — Floors of Rotten Boards ..."
5. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Beds" — Sickening Sights — Cellar Scenes — Rum Three Cents a Glass—"It's the
Vermin that's the Worst" — Standing up all Night — Floors of Rotten Boards ..."
6. Personal Recollections of the American Revolution: A Private Journal by Lydia Minturn Post (1859)
"... but it is bitter servitude to risk life and limb for lucre ; and revolting,
sickening, to serve in a cause by which we have nothing to gain in victory, ..."
7. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1810)
"299)- It is absolutely sickening. Upon the whole, we feel obliged to Mr. H.
for the care and elegance with which he has ushered into the/ world, ..."
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