Sicken \Sick"en\, v. i. 1. To become sick; to fall into disease.
The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. --Bacon.
2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. --Shak.
3. To become disgusting or tedious.
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. --Goldsmith.
4. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. --Pope.
Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sickened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sickening}.] 1. To make sick; to disease.
Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. --Prior.
2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak.
It does not threaten dother sea life, but it can sicken and even kill people who eat elevated levels of the toxin.
Dropping a nonlethal infectious agent from planes, though it would violently sicken U.S. forces as well as the enemy, could buy time until the ships arrived.