SICKEN


Meaning of SICKEN in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a sickening thud

His head hit the floor with a sickening thud .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sickening thud/crash/sound etc

Her heart took up a sickening thud.

One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.

Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless.

Then, with a sickening thud in her solar plexus, she understood.

They heard screams, kicks, the sickening thud of a punch, and the ogre roaring Solper's name.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"Some of the recent attacks on horses in this area are enough to sicken anyone," a police spokesman said.

A gas attack in the main train station sickened hundreds of people.

The smell of the blood sickened her and she ran out of the room.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I had heard them complaining of how nauseated they felt, how the very thought of food sickened them.

It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it.

Many of our people sickened and died, and we buried them in this strange land.

The stench of blood and waste sickened him.

They tell me their communities are sickened by this latest outrage.

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