MEANING
Causing physical sickness or intense disgust, often through an unpleasant smell, sight, or event.
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Use for a smell, sight, or revelation that turns the stomach.Make a detail provoke visceral disgust or a character’s recoil.
Words that belong together
- sickening odor
- sickening sight
- sickening discovery
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A sickening odor rose from the drained well.
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- sickening
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Can describe physical nausea or strong revulsion; the cause may be sensory, emotional, or moral.
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