sick ‧ en /ˈsɪkən/ BrE AmE verb
[ Word Family: noun : ↑ sick , the sick, ↑ sickness , ↑ sicko ; adjective : ↑ sick , ↑ sickening , ↑ sickly ; adverb : ↑ sickeningly , ↑ sickly ; verb : ↑ sicken ]
1 . [transitive] to make you feel shocked and angry, especially because you strongly disapprove of something SYN disgust :
The thought of such cruelty sickened her.
All decent people should be sickened by such a pointless waste of life.
2 . [intransitive] old-fashioned to gradually become very ill:
The older people just sickened and died as food supplies ran low.
be sickening for something phrasal verb British English
to be starting to have an illness:
Perhaps you’re sickening for something.
sicken of something phrasal verb
to lose your desire for something or your interest in it:
He finally sickened of the endless round of parties and idle conversation.