1 making you feel disgusted or shocked:
She was the victim of a sickening attack. * the sickening stench of burnt flesh * He described what had happened in sickening detail.
2 making you afraid that sb has been badly hurt or that sth has been broken:
Her head hit the ground with a sickening thud. * The truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch.
3 (informal, spoken) making you feel jealous or annoyed:
'She's off to the Bahamas for a month.' 'How sickening!'
sickeningly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is sickening a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sickening is tagged as adjective.
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