- 1令人作嘔的;令人厭惡的
Making you feel sick — either physically, from a bad smell or sight (a sickening smell from the garbage), or emotionally, because something is so cruel, shocking, or unfair that it disgusts you (a sickening crime).
From the word’s history
sicken + -ing.
就是 sicken 加 -ing。
組成sicken (sick + -en, "to make sick") + -ing.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sickeningadj/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/
- 1
Causing sickness or disgust.
- sickening cruelty
- sickening toxic fumes
- 2
Amazing, fantastic.
- Richard Cranium does sickening stuff (if your budget permits), stones from Charles Brennan and lots of imagination.
- Latrice lives every day by her mantra, “It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s OK to fall down. Get up, look sickening, and make them eat it!” Translation: rise above your downfalls in life, and always look amazing while dismissing the haters.
sickeningnoun/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/
- 1
The act of making somebody sick.
- In the Northeast, one porcini look-alike has been implicated in several sickenings. It is Boletus huronensis, and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.
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