c. 1200, "to become ill," from sick (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive sense of "to make sick" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Sickened; sickening. The earlier verb was simply sick (Old English seocan) "to be ill, fall ill."
sicken 双语例句
1. The animal began to sicken and soon died.
这只动物患了病很快就死了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Only Mother Shipton - once the strongest of the party - seemed to sicken and fade.
只有席蒲顿妈妈 — 以前是他们中最坚强的 — 似乎虚弱、憔悴.
来自辞典例句
3. Fitzpiers had hardly been gone an hour when Grace began to sicken.
菲茨比尔斯走后几乎不到一个小时,格雷丝就开始发病了.
来自辞典例句
4. I began to sicken of the endless violence shown on television.