What's the difference between nauseate and sicken?

Nauseate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
  • (v. t.) To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust.
  • (v. t.) To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
  • (2) Epinephrine increased significantly (P less than 0.05) after vection only in the nauseated subjects, whereas dopamine levels were not altered by vection in either group.
  • (3) The person giving the official Coalition briefing described the discussion between current and former leaders as an “almost nauseating exchange of compliments”.
  • (4) As I type I can smell the nauseating scent of death that clings to me still.
  • (5) And yes, the sight of British Bankers' Association chief Angela Knight in full victory pose is nauseating to all taxpayers who have stumped up billions to keep her friends in their jobs and bonuses.
  • (6) Families of China's 'disappeared' say country is a place of fear and panic Read more “It is so obsequious, it is just nauseating,” said Howie.
  • (7) The Great Beauty is intentionally overwhelming; its feast of riches borderline nauseating.
  • (8) During the first postoperative hour, 4% of patients given droperidol were nauseated and 2% vomited, whereas 16% of patients given saline were nauseated and 6% vomited.
  • (9) (You can turn on the Food Network, the Discovery Channel, CNN or – by now – the History Channel and see a show ranking the world's best sandwiches, all without leaving the continental United States, followed by a nauseating closeup of Guy Fieri's Baconated Hamapeño Chipotle-Chicken Despair Ziggurat.)
  • (10) Potassium chloride was more nauseating than glucose on an osmolar basis.
  • (11) The mendacity with which a section of the press fanned those flames was nauseating.
  • (12) My revulsion at this act of terrorism happened in black church on a Wednesday night is twofold: I’m horrified that nine lives have been stolen, destroying life as it was known for countless families and an entire congregation; I’m nauseated that the good folks taking care of their communities on Wednesday nights will now do so with varying degrees of terror forever.
  • (13) The young Kaminski went further by finding a political home in a nauseating relic of a party rooted in pre-war nationalist politics, in which he was then active for some years.
  • (14) After a nauseating impromptu public love-in with historian Niall Ferguson , who undermined what had been a persuasive argument on the reorganisation of the history syllabus by suggesting we adopt the US model – was there ever a nation who understood less of the world?
  • (15) Three excellent goals, from Héctor Bellerín, Mesut Özil and Alexis Sánchez, shredded Liverpool, who travelled south with a few headaches as far as their lineup was concerned, and went home with a nauseating migraine.
  • (16) Two subjects became nauseated after tourniquet cuff deflation when lidocaine plus fentanyl was tested, as did one subject when fentanyl was tested.
  • (17) The description of the victim Reeva Steenkamp's horrific injuries appear beyond nauseating to the athlete.
  • (18) That we demand a contest as satisfyingly unwholesome and rancorous as Cain and Abel, not something as nauseatingly wholesome and harmonious as Abel and Cole?
  • (19) The subjects talked less, when mildly sedated, and felt nauseated after the physostigmine treatment.
  • (20) Sometimes, to manage the images that come unbidden, I force myself to picture my parents copulating in intricate patterns, summoning the image in sets of eight, for so long that looking at them makes me nauseated."

Sicken


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make sick; to disease.
  • (v. t.) To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
  • (v. t.) To impair; to weaken.
  • (v. i.) To become sick; to fall into disease.
  • (v. i.) To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
  • (v. i.) To become disgusting or tedious.
  • (v. i.) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (2) The US media reported Holder was sickened by what he read in Helgerson's report.
  • (3) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
  • (4) But research showing that they sicken or kill bees and other pollinators means neonics could soon lose their grip in North America.
  • (5) London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said there would be more police on the streets of the capital on Tuesday after the “barbaric and sickening attack”.
  • (6) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
  • (7) The judge began sentencing for the "sickening and pitiless" attack by saying that Adebolajo and Adebowale were converts to Islam who became radicalised and extremists.
  • (8) The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence.
  • (9) He already knows that he will be without Troy Deeney, who was sent off for two bookings, while Manuel Almunia injured his left hamstring in the warm-up and had to be replaced by Jonathan Bond, who was taken to hospital after suffering a sickening injury in the first half.
  • (10) "Holocaust deniers are as sickening as they are ignorant.
  • (11) "It's really sickening how much those few chart positions matter," Sharland says.
  • (12) Five (71%) of seven dogs vaccinated with the N protein sickened, with incubation periods 3 to 7 days shorter than that of the control dogs; however, three (60%) of the five rabid dogs recovered without supportive treatment.
  • (13) But they sickened within days and died, and fell apart into scrap and rubble.
  • (14) In a 109-page dossier of complaints by dozens of BBC staff, one manager is accused of targeting a colleague over his sexuality and telling him: "Your lifestyle sickens me but it's your choice."
  • (15) But having largely restricted Austria in terms of second-half chances, their inability to keep possession at the very last had sickening consequences.
  • (16) But as Monsieur de Molière (né plain old Pocquelin and not so indifferent himself to some personal rebranding) makes his way, in 2009, out of the Eurostar terminal and heads off down Judd Street, he has a sickening thought: what if his play has become irrelevant?
  • (17) It’s a sickening feeling, you come off the pitch and the worst thing is you have to go over to the fans who have travelled down; it’s not nice but every single player held their hand up in there, every single one.
  • (18) On Wednesday, Obama repeatedly called Isis “terrorists.” The Committee to Protect Journalists said the murder of Foley, 40, who went missing during a reporting trip to Syria in 2012, “sickens all decent people”.
  • (19) McIlveen wrote: “Utterly sickened that a Christian-owned business has been hauled over the coals for refusing to promote something that is not legal in Northern Ireland.” Meanwhile, the hardline Traditional Unionist Voice leader, Jim Allister, said it was “a dark day for justice and religious freedom in Northern Ireland”.
  • (20) The Murdoch family were said to be "ashamed and sickened..." by Ailes' "horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corp, its founder and every other global media business aspires to".

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