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Silkens vs Sickens - What's the difference?

silkens | sickens |

As verbs the difference between silkens and sickens

is that silkens is third-person singular of silken while sickens is third-person singular of sicken.

silkens

English

Verb

(head)
  • (silken)

  • silken

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of silk.
  • a silken veil
  • Having a smooth, soft, or light texture, like that of silk; suggestive of silk.
  • * 1994 , , ch. 2:
  • He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.
  • Smoothly uttered; flowing, subtle, or convincing in presentation.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Silken terms precise.
  • (obsolete) Dressed in silk.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A silken wanton.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To render silken or silklike.
  • (Dyer)

    sickens

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sicken)

  • sicken

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make ill.
  • The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
  • To become ill.
  • I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.
  • To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
  • His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
  • To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
  • To become disgusting or tedious.
  • * Goldsmith
  • The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
  • To become weak; to decay; to languish.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • All pleasures sicken , and all glories sink.