Definitions for sicken

sicken sick·en

Spelling: [sik-uh n]
IPA: /ˈsɪk ən/

Sicken is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in sicken (ceikns).

Definitions for sicken

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to make or become sick.

Origin of sicken

1150-1200; Middle English seknen, sicnen; cognate with Old Norse sjūkna. See sick1, -en1

Examples for sicken

It was less invective than scornful, and scorn that seemed to sicken her as she spoke it.

That trace of effluvia which in force could sicken a Terran, was his guide.

Or because the series of unfortunate events that we call old age tends to find and sicken the elderly?

Shut up under the stifling roof of a khan, you will sicken and die.

All this gilded elegance of the court, all these intrigues, sicken me.

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them.

I saw enough of these, even in the best, to sicken me with mankind.

His brutality had made the delicacy in her crouch and sicken.

He was strangely reticent; my news seemed to benumb and sicken him.

They sicken, and grow feeble with age, and finally die, as we do.

Word Value for sicken
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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