Sickens vs Dickens - What's the difference?
sickens | dickens |
(sicken)
To make ill.
To become ill.
* Francis Bacon
To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
* Shakespeare
To become disgusting or tedious.
* Goldsmith
To become weak; to decay; to languish.
* Alexander Pope
(euphemistic) The devil.
In the phrase the dickens ((Used as an intensifier)).
As a verb sickens
is (sicken).As a proper noun dickens is
.sickens
English
Verb
(head)sicken
English
Verb
(en verb)- The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
- I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
- The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.
- His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
- Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
- The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
- All pleasures sicken , and all glories sink.
dickens
English
Noun
(-)- She can go to the dickens for what she said.
- You scared the dickens out of me.
- Why the dickens did he do that?
- We had the dickens of a row.
