"sickening" meaning in English

See sickening in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/ Audio: En-au-sickening.ogg [Australia] Forms: more sickening [comparative], most sickening [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} sickening (comparative more sickening, superlative most sickening)
  1. Causing sickness or disgust. Translations (causing sickness or disgust): гаден (gaden) (Bulgarian), противен (protiven) (Bulgarian), ziekmakend (Dutch), misselijkmakend (Dutch), walgelijk (Dutch), oksettava (Finnish), yököttävä (Finnish), ällöttävä (Finnish), à s’en rendre malade (French), dégoûtant [offensive, possibly] (French), ekelhaft (German), widerlich (German), abscheulich (German), ekelerregend (German), unerträglich (German), widerwärtig (German), scheußlich (German), krankmachend (German), тошнотво́рный (tošnotvórnyj) (Russian), отврати́тельный (otvratítelʹnyj) (Russian), asqueante (Spanish), estomagante (Spanish), repugnante (Spanish), нудо́тний (nudótnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-sickening-en-adj-9RZtuLsr Disambiguation of 'causing sickness or disgust': 98 2
  2. (LGBT slang) Amazing, fantastic. Tags: slang Categories (topical): LGBT
    Sense id: en-sickening-en-adj-Rm~lNcqA Topics: LGBT, lifestyle, sexuality
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: loathsome, disgusting, abominable, detestable, hateful

Noun

IPA: /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/ Audio: En-au-sickening.ogg [Australia] Forms: sickenings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sickening (plural sickenings)
  1. The act of making somebody sick.
    Sense id: en-sickening-en-noun-CrhFNtYA

Verb

IPA: /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/ Audio: En-au-sickening.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} sickening
  1. present participle and gerund of sicken Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: sicken
    Sense id: en-sickening-en-verb-QJXLfuRU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 7 1 67

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nudótnyj",
      "sense": "causing sickness or disgust",
      "word": "нудо́тний"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sickening"
}

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    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
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  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sickenings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sickening (plural sickenings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sick‧en‧ing"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of making somebody sick."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sickening.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/En-au-sickening.ogg/En-au-sickening.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-au-sickening.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sickening"
}

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