unsicken

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ sicken.

Verb[edit]

unsicken (third-person singular simple present unsickens, present participle unsickening, simple past and past participle unsickened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become less sick.
    • 1979, Pebble, volumes 18-20, page 118:
      Don't speak in parables
      About a valley where corn unsickens
      On brittle stalks and a blind girl sees the sunlight thicken
      In the apple trees.
    • 2015, Helena P. Schrader, Defender of Jerusalem:
      Baldwin felt the blood flushing his face, turning his unsickened skin a vibrant shade of cooked-crab red, while the damaged skin remained uncolored and so highlighted.