Nauseate
['nɔːsɪeɪt;-z-] or ['nɔzɪet]
Definition
(v. i.) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
(v. t.) To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust.
(v. t.) To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe.
Checker: Stella
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Feel nausea, feel disgust, grow qualmish.
v. a. [1]. Sicken, disgust, revolt, make sick, turn one's stomach, make one's gorge rise.[2]. Loathe, abhor, detest, abominate, feel nausea or disgust at, shrink from, recoil from.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- I felt sick in the night and in the morning after breakfast I was nauseated. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We can't say Billfinger; it is nauseating. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That was the nauseating method of nineteenth century economists when they tried to identify the brutal practices of capitalism with the beneficence of nature and the Will of God. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Polly