a. 引起疾病的, 引起呕吐的, 令人厌恶的, 使人作呕的

[ adj ]
causing or able to cause nausea
<adj.all>
a nauseating smellnauseous offal
a sickening stench

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.


Sickening \Sick"en*ing\, a.
Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust;
nauseating. -- {Sick"en*ing*ly}, adv.