1. 使厭惡;使作嘔 If something sickens you, it makes you feel disgusted.
e.g. The notion that art should be controlled by intellectuals sickened him... 他討厭藝術(shù)應由知識分子所掌控的觀(guān)點(diǎn)。 e.g. What he saw there sickened him, despite all his years of police work. 盡管他干了多年的警察工作，但在那里所見(jiàn)的一切還是讓他感到惡心。
2. 患病;得病;生病 If you sicken, you become ill.
e.g. Many of them sickened and died. 他們中的很多人都患病身亡。
sicken英英釋義
verb
1. get sick
e.g. She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital
Synonym: come down
2. make sick or ill
e.g. This kind of food sickens me
3. cause aversion in offend the moral sense of
e.g. The pornographic pictures sickened us
Synonym: disgustrevoltnauseatechurn up
4. upset and make nauseated
e.g. The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach The mold on the food sickened the diners