sicken

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Meaning

To make sick; to disease.

To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.

To impair; to weaken.

To become sick; to fall into disease.

To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.

To become disgusting or tedious.

To become weak; to decay; to languish.

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

They sicken of the calm who know the storm. Dorothy Parker

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence. Audre Lorde

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. Diane Setterfield

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away. William Lucking

One's foul smelling does not sicken one self but merely disguts one. Swahili Proverb

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