Disgust vs Sicken - What's the difference?
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To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
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
As verbs the difference between disgust and sicken
is that disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something while sicken is to make ill.As a noun disgust
is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.disgust
English
Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
Noun
(wikipedia disgust) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.
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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.