Nauseate

/ˈnɔziˌeɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To cause nausea in..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cause nausea in.
2. (transitive) To disgust.
3. (intransitive) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
5. (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To be disgusted by (something).

Example Sentences

[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.

After another three-quarters of an hour we pick up eleven children, nearly all of them objectionable on the score of smell. The air we breathe over and over begins to be so foul that it nauseates me.

[…] I have not treated you as a Wise man would have done in silence, but it is time to put an end to this tittle tattle which has nauseated you for three days together.

[…] can you, will you pronounce it ill meant, at least of him, when anxious for his son’s morals, with a view to form him to virtue, and inspire him with a fixed, a rational contempt for vice, he condescended to be his master of the ceremonies, and led him by the hand through the most noted bawdy-houses in town, where he took care he should be familiarized with all those scenes of debauchery, so fit to nauseate a good taste?

[…] he is repeating his confounded jokes until they quite nauseate.

As one of Woodward’s Patients, sick and sore, I puke, I nauseate,—yet he thrusts in more;

I prescribed Iodized Lime, 1-2 grain every half hour. The stomach soon began to nauseate.

1753, J. Wall, A letter from J. Wall M.D. to Edward Wilmot M.D.F.R.S. and Physician to His Majesty, concerning the Use of the Peruvian Bark in the Small Pox, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1753, p. 594, In Children and delicate Persons, who are apt to nauseate this Remedy, I have with Success given it mix’d up with thin Chocolate; which, if sufficiently sweetened, disguises it better than any thing I know of.

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• nauseates
• nauseating
• nauseated

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