Usually means: Causing intense disgust or horror.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word sickening:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sickening: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sickening: Merriam-Webster
  3. sickening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sickening: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sickening: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sickening: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sickening, sickening: Wordnik
  8. sickening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sickening: Wiktionary
  10. sickening: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sickening: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sickening: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sickening: Dictionary.com
  14. sickening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sickening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sickening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sickening: Rhymezone
  18. Sickening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sickening: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sickening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sickening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickening: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickening: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickening: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickening: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sicken as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing sickness or disgust.
adjective:  (LGBTQ slang) Amazing, fantastic.
noun:  The act of making somebody sick.

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