sicken
Make someone ill
Sicken means to make or become ill.
Something sickening causes nausea or disgust: The smell of rotting meat sickened her.
The word often describes moral revulsion rather than physical illness: I was sickened by the cruelty I witnessed.
To sicken for something (British) is to show early symptoms of an illness: The child was sickening for the flu.
Mildly sick to stomach
- nauseateInduce queasiness or revulsion
- vomitEject stomach contents
- retchGag involuntarily
- gagMouth restraint or jest
bilious · seasick · carsick · airsick · stomachache · indigestion · queasiness · green around the gills
Drive back or disgust
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- repelDrive off or disgust
- disgustIntense physical aversion
- nauseateInduce queasiness or revulsion
offend · appall · horrify · loathe · abhor · detest · stomach-turning · off-putting
To trouble physically
- afflictCause persistent distress
- infectTransmit pathogens to
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- feverElevated body temperature
malady · ailment · infection · virus · bacteria · pathogen · epidemic · pandemic
Become more severe
- declineDecrease or refuse
- weakenReduce in strength
- failBe unsuccessful
- languishWeaken through suffering
wilt · fade · waste away · go downhill · take a turn · relapse · degenerate · debilitate
queasy
Mildly sick to stomach
gag · bilious · seasick · carsick · airsick · stomachache · indigestion · queasiness · green around the gills · heave
repulse
Drive back or disgust
nauseate · offend · appall · horrify · loathe · abhor · detest · stomach-turning · off-putting · gross out
ail
To trouble physically
- afflictCause persistent distress
- infectTransmit pathogens to
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
fever · malady · ailment · infection · virus · bacteria · pathogen · epidemic · pandemic · contagion
worsen
Become more severe
languish · wilt · fade · waste away · go downhill · take a turn · relapse · degenerate · debilitate · enfeeble
- disgustdisgust, disgusting, disgusted, revulsion, repulsion
- falling illfall ill, take ill, come down with, catch cold, feel unwell
- get sickBecome unwell
- sick and tiredThoroughly weary of something
- sick dayPaid absence for illness
- worried sickIntensely anxious to illness
- morning sicknessPregnancy-related nausea
- sick leaveAuthorized absence when unwell
sick, sickness, sickly, sickening, homesick, lovesick, heartsick, sicker, sickened