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sickening

/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/adjective3 syllables

Sickening means: causing or able to cause nausea.

Synonyms for sickening10

adjective, as in causing or able to cause nausea

nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, vile, unwholesome

also used for sickening

cunty, mother

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What does sickening mean?1

adjective

1

causing or able to cause nausea“a nauseating smell”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Sickening in a sentence

  • The vanilla in my chicken soup is sickening.mervert1
  • Felix smelt the disgusting sickening smell of death.Amastan
  • The silence was deafening, almost sickening.Amastan
  • Experience the sickening knotting of the stomach.DuosDragonPolyglot
  • This is sickening to the bones.OsoHombre

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