unsicken
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[edit]unsicken (third-person singular simple present unsickens, present participle unsickening, simple past and past participle unsickened)
- (ambitransitive) 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.