The word "sicken" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe a feeling of disgust or revulsion. For example, "The gruesome murder in our neighborhood sickened me."
"A boring National Theatre production of She Stoops to Conquer seen through drooping eyelids (why revive that creaky old thing at all?) and a snatched one-hour visit to the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (enough time to sicken of the acres of belly and parted groins) on the way to the Eurostar.
And for those who shun extremes, the ONS had four other variants on offer: annual rises of 0.9% and 0.2% and yearly falls of 0.5% and 0.9%.As with music and love, so with official numbers and productivity: an excess of them may cause the appetite to sicken and die.
This makes sense: in those areas with a high level of radiation, living things would tend to die or sicken and fail to reproduce.
At first, when the poor beast began to sicken, we Tiger cubs set up a great roaring and ranting.
Some are loaded with poisons to sicken or kill them.
Always in a somewhat liminal state, shamans had to be acutely aware of the community's goings-on or risk the consequences: a number of 19th-century accounts report the execution of Pima shamans who were believed to have caused people to sicken and die.
Perhaps we'll eventually sicken of the Bourne series, too, but at present its kinetic energy and fleetness, unhampered by the baggage of four decades, are leaving Bond way behind.
Labour MP Tom Greatrex says Mr Breton's bonus will "sicken" those put through the reassessment ordeal.
"It will sicken those who have been through the Atos process to hear the company crow about its expertise".
"I would sicken for the challenge if I walked away from this," she agrees.
The initial explosion and its subsequent plume might kill or sicken a dozen or perhaps as many as a few hundred people, depending on such factors as wind and the bomb-maker's skill.
