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adjective

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as in sick
temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body the sickened passengers were rushed to the emergency room for treatment

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as in shocked
filled with disgust many audience members, sickened by the movie's graphic violence, walked out of the theater before the end

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sickened

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verb

past tense of sicken
as in disgusted
to cause to feel disgust sickened by the awful sight of the polluted river

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Recent Examples of sickened
Adjective
The sickened babies were in California, Washington and Pennsylvania, according to the FDA notice. — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 June 2026 The woman is now being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday, according to the Associated Press and France 24. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Verb
Reporter covering local breaking news Federal health officials are investigating a multistate salmonella outbreak that has been linked to raw oysters and sickened 27 people across a dozen states. — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 The state’s outbreak has spread to dozens of counties, sickened over 1,200 people, and put 176 in the hospital. — Raj Panjabi, STAT, 21 Oct. 2026 Last week, ProPublica detailed the case of two girls severely sickened last year after consuming raw goat milk from an unregulated farm in southern California. — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2026 The milk suspected to have sickened the girls didn’t come from one of the state’s dozen licensed farms. — CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 At the time, the FDA had gotten reports of at least 30 sickened people. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2026 The news comes on the heels of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on New York City’s Upper East Side, around Museum Mile, which killed 11 people and sickened 94 this past summer. — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 Last year, another Legionnaires' outbreak in Harlem killed seven people and sickened dozens of others. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 Most healthy individuals are not sickened by exposure, but high-risk populations can face severe health consequences. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickened
  1. sick
  2. shocked
  3. disgusted
  4. bad
  5. repulsed
  6. poorly
  7. appalled
  8. horrified
Adjective
  • Pediatric staff members bring Halloween, Christmas, Easter, New Year’s Eve and even the Tooth Fairy to hospitalized sick kids.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Documenting which children grew sickest and following an illness from house to house was a method aimed at articulating an explainable pattern.
    — Jim Downs, STAT, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of sick
Adjective
  • Many attendees in the chambers appeared shocked and confused at the proposal for the new ordinance.
    — Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The first thing a newborn baby touches upon entering the world is cloth—a towel or blanket wrapped around its shocked little body.
    — Livia Caligor, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of shocked
Verb
  • Nonpartisan voters are just as disgusted by politicians who sacrifice the public good for their personal gain.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Janice was disgusted; Mary was emotionally devastated and financially ruined.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of disgusted
Adjective
  • One option for overhauling the committee, according to people familiar with the situation, is broadening its focus beyond China to explore issues related to other bad foreign actors.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Phillips caught a bad break when her approach to the green hit a tree branch on its upward flight and dropped 20 yards short of the green.
    — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of bad
Verb
  • Not since voters were repulsed by President Nixon after the Watergate scandal half a century ago has the popular vote swung so decisively in a single election cycle.
    — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Young people just aren’t interested, partly because they’re repulsed by bodily fluids.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of repulsed
Adjective
  • For however poorly things are going — and the bad tone set by the starters has leaked into some defensive lapses and some pressing at the plate — the Padres got themselves into a really favorable position before this.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This involves having a poorly or non-functioning colon and is not usually reversible.
    — Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
Definition of poorly
Verb
  • Biss, however, said he is appalled by these actions and policies, calling them unconstitutional.
    — Russell Lissau, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
  • When James Kelman won the Booker Prize in 1994, the decision was met with disgust by the literary establishment, appalled by the profanity and the informality of the Glasgow drunk whose inner life the novel details.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of appalled
Verb
  • If everything else is correct, that only brings a score to a 98% — but many customers would still be horrified to hear there were roaches.
    — David Raynor, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Alma Hernandez, board president of Santa Maria Joint Union High School District, said she was horrified by ICE’s actions.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of horrified

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