sickening

[ sik-uh-ning ]
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adjective
  1. causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.

Origin of sickening

1
First recorded in 1715–25; sicken + -ing2

Other words for sickening

Other words from sickening

  • sick·en·ing·ly, adverb

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How to use sickening in a sentence

  • The gears clashed sickeningly and the car was jerked into the road with a violence that should have stripped the differential.

British Dictionary definitions for sickening

sickening

/ (ˈsɪkənɪŋ) /


adjective
  1. causing sickness or revulsion

  2. informal extremely annoying

Derived forms of sickening

  • sickeningly, adverb

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