sickening
/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/ noun C2- The act of making somebody sick.
Plural sickenings
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Every little while a horrible sickening feeling would come over me and I’d be so afraid it was all a dream.
For a moment Anne felt one sickening pang of defeat and disappointment.
You remember the kind of numb cold which used to come at evening, a deadly, sickening sort of cold, very different from a crisp healthy frost.
“There go two miscreants;” said he, “it is a pity they are not really related!” Then, after an instant of gloomy reflection, “Come, I will go to see the Morrels,” said he; “I think that disgust is even more sickening than hatred.”
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