verb
- Upset and make nauseated.
- usage: "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"
- synonyms: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach
- Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of.
- usage: "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
adjective
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