Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SICK-EN, v.t. [sik'n.]

1. To make sick; to disease. Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death. – Prior.
2. To make squeamish. It sickens the stomach.
3. To disgust. It sickens one to hear the fawning sycophant.
4. To impair. [Not in use.] – Shak.