c. 1200, "to become ill," from sick (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive sense of "to make sick" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Sickened; sickening. The earlier verb was simply sick (Old English seocan) "to be ill, fall ill."
雙語例句
1. The animal began to sicken and soon died.
這只動物患了病很快就死了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Only Mother Shipton - once the strongest of the party - seemed to sicken and fade.
只有席蒲頓媽媽 — 以前是他們中最堅強的 — 似乎虛弱、憔悴.
來自辭典例句
3. Fitzpiers had hardly been gone an hour when Grace began to sicken.
菲茨比爾斯走后幾乎不到一個小時,格雷絲就開始發病了.
來自辭典例句
4. I began to sicken of the endless violence shown on television.