Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SICK'EN, v.i.

1. To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.
2. To be satiated; to be filled to disgust. – Shak.
3. To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. – Goldsmith.
4. To be disgusted; to be filled with aversion or abhorrence. He sickened at the sight of so much human misery.
5. To become weak; to decay; to languish. Plants often sicken and die. All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. – Pope.