c. 1200, "to become ill," from sick (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive sense of "to make sick" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Sickened; sickening. The earlier verb was simply sick (Old English seocan) "to be ill, fall ill."
例文
1. The animal began to sicken and soon died.
この動物は病気にかかってすぐに死んでしまった。
2.Only Mother Shipton-once the strongest of the party-seemed to sicken and fade.
は席蒲トンのお母さんだけ--以前は彼らの中で最も強く、虚弱でやつれていたようだ。
3.Fitzpiers had hardly been gone an hour when Grace began to sicken .
フィッツビルが歩いてからほぼ1時間もたたないうちにグレースは発病し始めた。
4.I began to sicken of the endless violence shown on television.