sickening

CEFRB1

/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/

adjective · verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Making you feel disgust or nausea.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Amazing, fantastic.

Examples

  • Experience the sickening knotting of the stomach.

  • The vanilla in my chicken soup is sickening.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
3
Citations
4
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Causing sickness or disgust.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. present participle and gerund of sicken

noun

Extra meaning

  1. The act of making somebody sick.

More examples

In context

  • sickening cruelty

  • sickening toxic fumes

  • Richard Cranium does sickening stuff (if your budget permits), stones from Charles Brennan and lots of imagination.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The smell of the rotting garbage was so blank that people covered their noses.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

adjective

By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.