Past tense of sicken
regular verb
The past tense of sicken is sickened. The past participle is also sickened.
Forms of sicken
| Base form (V1) | sicken /ˈsɪkən/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | sickened |
| Past participle (V3) | sickened |
| Present participle | sickening /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | sickens |
Sickened in a sentence
- Donald Trump’s former top food safety official has accused the administration of a near “catastrophic” mismanagement of the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the US.2026 July 25, Oliver Milman, “Former FDA official says US handling of cyclospora near ‘catastrophic level’”, in The Guardian, archived from...
- Are you sickened by the idea of more and more CIA hankypanky in Central America?1984 April 21, Sue Hyde, “Got Those Intervention Blues, Friend?”, in Gay Community News, page 2. From the entry hanky-panky
- Author Myron Uhlberg, another son of deaf-mute parents, was sickened by the audistic treatment of his father in public.2016, Homer Ross Tomlin, Homer Thornberry: Congressman, Judge, and Advocate for Equal Rights, Fort Worth, T.X.: TCU Press, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry audistic
- After a medical procedure I will send off a sister ship to the sphere with the sickened savages.2011, Henry Westwood, AD ASTRA PER ASPERA, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry send off
- The scale and ferocity of violence produced by uncivil wars have fascinated, shocked, and sickened the whole world.2004, John Keane, Violence and Democracy. From the entry blandiloquence
Meaning of sicken
- verb To make ill.
- verb To become ill.
- verb To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
Questions about the past tense of sicken
- What is the past tense of sicken?
- The past tense of sicken is sickened.
- What is the past participle of sicken?
- The past participle of sicken is sickened.
- Is sicken a regular or irregular verb?
- Sicken is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sicken (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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