sicken

Other forms of sicken

past tense

sickenned·

present participle

sickenning·

third person

sickens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sicken

What does sicken mean?

sicken means "cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sicken?

sicken has 2 syllables: sic-ken. The stress falls on "sic". In IPA it is /ˈsɪkən/.

What is another word for sicken?

Close synonyms include disgust, revolt, nauseate, churn up, come down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sicken a common word?

sicken is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.