sickening
pronunciation
How to pronounce sickening in British English:
UK [ˈsɪkənɪŋ]
How to pronounce sickening in American English:
US [ˈsɪkənɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- causing or able to cause nausea
Word Origin
- sickening (adj.)
- "falling sick," 1725; "causing revulsion, disgust, or nausea," 1789, present participle adjective from sicken. Related: Sickeningly.
Example
- 1. Their ideas of fun could be sickening : stoning horses or shooting arrows at a live hen buried up to the neck .
- 2. There is no folklore of a chinese burden comparable to gulf war syndrome or agent orange , sickening waves of foreigners long after their in-country exposure .
- 3. The sickening spectacle of those responsible walking off with millions of pounds of other people 's money in bonuses has rightly put bankers akin to mafia racketeers in public esteem .
- 4. That rule was finalized early on in the obama administration and implemented on large farms in july -- just a little too late , it seems , to have prevented the current outbreak that is sickening so many people .
- 5. Ms hillenbrand recounts how prisoners would cook a stolen onion under a water heater , stuff sugar into their boots and mix the foulest available excrement into the bird 's food in the hopes of sickening him .