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- Dictionarysick·en·ing/ˈsikəniNG/
adjective
- 1. causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust: "a sickening stench of blood"
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The meaning of SICKENING is causing sickness or disgust. How to use sickening in a sentence.
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.
Sickening definition: causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing. See examples of SICKENING used 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.
[usually before noun] making you afraid that somebody has been badly hurt or that something has been broken. Her head hit the ground with a sickening thud. The truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch. (informal) making you feel jealous or annoyed because you wish you had something that somebody else has.
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.
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.
Definition of sickening adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
