Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sicken
Participle: sickened
Gerund: sickening
Indicative
Present
| I | sicken |
| you | sicken |
| he;she;it | sickens |
| we | sicken |
| you | sicken |
| they | sicken |
Perfect
| I | have sickened |
| you | have sickened |
| he;she;it | has sickened |
| we | have sickened |
| you | have sickened |
| they | have sickened |
Past
| I | sickened |
| you | sickened |
| he;she;it | sickened |
| we | sickened |
| you | sickened |
| they | sickened |
Pluperfect
| I | had sickened |
| you | had sickened |
| he;she;it | had sickened |
| we | had sickened |
| you | had sickened |
| they | had sickened |
Future
| I | will sicken |
| you | will sicken |
| he;she;it | will sicken |
| we | will sicken |
| you | will sicken |
| they | will sicken |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sickened |
| you | will have sickened |
| he;she;it | will have sickened |
| we | will have sickened |
| you | will have sickened |
| they | will have sickened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sicken |
| you | sicken |
| he;she;it | sicken |
| we | sicken |
| you | sicken |
| they | sicken |
Perfect
| I | have sickened |
| you | have sickened |
| he;she;it | have sickened |
| we | have sickened |
| you | have sickened |
| they | have sickened |
Imperfect
| I | sickened |
| you | sickened |
| he;she;it | sickened |
| we | sickened |
| you | sickened |
| they | sickened |
Pluperfect
| I | had sickened |
| you | had sickened |
| he;she;it | had sickened |
| we | had sickened |
| you | had sickened |
| they | had sickened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sicken |
| you | would sicken |
| he;she;it | would sicken |
| we | would sicken |
| you | would sicken |
| they | would sicken |
Perfect
| I | would have sickened |
| you | would have sickened |
| he;she;it | would have sickened |
| we | would have sickened |
| you | would have sickened |
| they | would have sickened |
Imperative
| you | sicken |
| we | Let's sicken |
| you | sicken |
Verbs conjugated like 'sicken'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sicken'
sicker,
silken,
slicken,
bicker,
birken,
blicken,
chicken,
dicker,
icen,
liken,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English sekenen, equivalent to sick + -en. Cognate with Danish sygne (“to pine”), Swedish sjukna (“to fall ill; become sick”), Norwegian sykne, Icelandic sjúkna (“to sicken; become sick”). See: Danish '
sygne', Swedish '
sjukna', Icelandic '
sjúkna'.
Sample Sentences
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‘But suddenly she sickened again; her disease raged with great violence during five weeks, when her eyes and ears were inflamed, suppurated, and their contents were discharged. But though sight and hearing were gone for [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] despicable weathercocks are blown this way or that ? A hundred times in every week, some new most paltry exhibition of that narrow-minded and injurious Party Spirit, which is the Simoom of America, sickening and blighting everything of wholesome life within its reach, was forced upon my notice; but I never turned my back upon it with feelings of such deep disgust and measureless contempt, as when I [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] with broken arms, and broken legs, and gashed flesh, and missing teeth, and lacerated backs, and bites of dogs, and brands of red-hot irons innumerable: but as my readers will be sufficiently sickened and repelled already, I will turn to another branch of the subject.
(American Notes for General Circulation)