Definitions for sickening

sickening sick·en·ing

Spelling: [sik-uh-ning]
IPA: /ˈsɪk ə nɪŋ/

Sickening is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in sickening (cegiiknns).

Definitions for sickening

adjective

  1. causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing:

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to make or become sick.

Origin of sickening

First recorded in 1715-25; sicken + -ing2

Examples for sickening

They absolutely must boycott this absurd, insane, sickening, repulsive, shameful, and at the same time shame-less circus.

Such symptoms, when a disease of the kind is rife, are usually the signs of sickening.

As Gawain rides along the bank of a creek, he hears this sickening sound ringing from above.

A sickening conviction came that it was the dreaded influenza.

Lack of elaboration is a virus that continually infects the book, sometimes having a sickening effect on the reader.

When I last wrote, on the Somme in 1915, I was sickening with typhoid fever.

I had read the "Extra," with all its sickening details, and so handed it back to him.

By then he was blue in the face, a sickening color, like an old hematoma.

Hot orange flames leap into the sky bringing with them the sickening, inescapable stench of death.

It was sickening to see, because I knew what was going to happen.

Word Value for sickening
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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