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- Dictionarysickening/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust: "a sickening stench of blood"
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extremely unpleasant and causing you to feel shock and anger: The slaves were treated with sickening cruelty. There was a sickening thud when the child fell from the tree and hit the ground. annoying: It's sickening, the way she gets her parents to do what she wants. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Serious and unpleasant. abominable.
The meaning of SICKENING is causing sickness or disgust. How to use sickening in a sentence.
You describe something as sickening when it gives you feelings of horror or disgust, or makes you feel sick in your stomach.
Sickening definition: causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing. See examples of SICKENING used in a sentence.
to cause someone to feel unpleasant emotions, especially anger and shock: The violence in the film sickened me. He was sickened by/at the number of people who were hurt in the crash. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Making people sad, shocked and upset.
sickening. adjective. /ˈsɪkənɪŋ/ making you feel shocked or full of horror synonym nauseating (2), repulsive. She was the victim of a sickening attack. the sickening stench of burnt flesh. The thought of losing my mom was sickening. He described what had happened in sickening detail.
Definitions of sickening. adjective. causing or able to cause nausea. “a sickening stench”. synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile. unwholesome. detrimental to physical or moral well-being.
sickening meaning, definition, what is sickening: very shocking, annoying, or upsetting: Learn more.
Sickening Sentence Examples. A sickening feeling starts to grow from the pit of my stomach. She saw smoke moving across the sky a moment before the helicopter rolled and began its sickening maneuvers again. Her surroundings blurred into light and shadows, and she felt the sickening sense of falling off the cliff again.
[intransitive] to become ill. (old-fashioned) The baby sickened and died before his first birthday. (British English) Faye hasn't eaten all day—she must be sickening for something. Topics Health problems c2. See sicken in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: sicken.
