v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sickened p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening. ] 1. To make sick; to disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To impair; to weaken. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become sick; to fall into disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become disgusting or tedious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To become weak; to decay; to languish. [ 1913 Webster ]

All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. i. [ AS. sicerian. ] (Mining) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [ Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr. ] [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]