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sickening definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1789 causing sickness or disgust <a sickening odor> <a sickening display> • sickeningly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sicken Sick"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.] 1. To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. --Prior. 2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. 3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sickening Sick"en*ing, a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You describe something as sickening when it gives you feelings of horror or disgust, or makes you feel sick in your stomach. This was a sickening attack on a pregnant and defenceless woman... ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Nauseating, nauseous, sickish, palling. 2. Disgusting, distasteful, repulsive, revolting, foul, loathsome, offensive.

Moby Thesaurus

abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, overripe, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky