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Sickening vs Acrid - What's the difference?

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Sickening is a related term of acrid.


As adjectives the difference between sickening and acrid

is that sickening is causing sickness or disgust while acrid is sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.

As a verb sickening

is .

As a noun sickening

is the act of making somebody sick.

sickening

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing sickness or disgust.
  • Amazing, fantastic.

    • See also

    * loathsome * disgusting * abominable * detestable * hateful

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making somebody sick.
  • * 2010 , Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares
    • In the Northeast, one porcini look-alike has been implicated in several sickenings . It is Boletus huronensis , and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.

    acrid

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
  • Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
  • Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.

    • Synonyms

    * acerbic

    Antonyms

    *delectable, delicious, tasteful

    Anagrams

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