to sick
3
3.2
- verb
- /sɪk/
:
poner enfermo
- Although a likely scenario is a smaller attack that can sicken thousands and kill hundreds, the U.S. population will not tolerate such "malpractice error of omission" on the part of policymakers and public health authorities (Henretig, 2001).
- sicken and kill
Examples
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Elderly adults often sicken on exposure to only a small fraction of the infectious dose that others require—an issue for the U.S. as its baby boomer population ages.
Academic text (2007) -
Leptospirosis, also called Weil's Disease, is transmitted to humans mainly through direct contact with infected animals, but it can also sicken humans via contaminated soil or water.
Academic text (2000) -
You should get your children exposed to all these, and they should get sick with all of them.
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We don't have to accept us being made sick and our children being made sick.
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Most people just get sicked out and stop reading.
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They denied it until the men in their own companies began to sicken and die of it.
Fiction book (1990) -
The river abounded with microscopic cells of algae, which can foul the water and, in some cases, sicken people and animals with toxins.
Blog text (3) -
The CDC predicts that a "medium-level epidemic" could kill up to 207,000 Americans, hospitalize 734,000, and sicken about a third of the U.S. population.
Academic text (2005) -
One size of the bottle, which users can repeatedly squeeze, contains 18 servings, or 1,060 milligrams, of caffeine—more than enough, health specialists say, to sicken children and some adults, and even send some of them to the hospital.
Blog text (3) -
The spoiled food will sicken anyone who eats it.
Synonyms
14
7.3
Make someone feel disgusted or sick
11
4.1
Make someone feel physically ill or upset
3
6.9
To make someone feel sick or disgusted
Give someone a sick feeling in the stomach after eating or drinking
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Archaic
1
6.5
A severe headache that often makes you feel sick and unable to concentrate
A Roman Catholic ritual where a priest puts oil on a very sick person and prays for comfort
- Archaic
Sick after eating meat or drinking milk from animals that eat poisonous plants
How Sickening
3
3.2
3
6.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sick meaning 'to cause someone to become ill' comes from the same root as sicken, which literally means 'to cause sickness', so it explains why food or smells can 'sick' someone.