Nauseate

Quick meaning: Nauseate is a verb meaning (transitive) To cause nausea in.

Meaning

(transitive) To cause nausea in.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

[…] 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.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• nauseates
• nauseating
• nauseated

Synonyms for nauseate

Depending on context, synonyms include disgust, offend, repel, repulse, revolt, sicken.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sicken, disgust, revolt, turn, overset, queazen.

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