nauseate

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He tells what strumpet places sells for life, What 'squire his lands, what citizen his wife: And last (which proves him wiser still than all) What lady's face is not a whited wall As one of Woodward's patients, sick, and sore, I puke, I nauseate--yet he thrusts in more: Trims Europe's balance, tops the statesman's part, And talks gazettes and post-boys o'er by heart.

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  1. intransitive and transitive verb To feel or cause to feel nausea.
  2. intransitive and transitive verb To feel or cause to feel loathing or disgust. See Synonyms at disgust.

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  • Enda is the most Taoiseachy person in Fine Gael due to the rest of the Front Bench's ability to nauseate or bore. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
  • It has been used to relieve childbirth pain, as a general analgesic, and more recently as a treatment for glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, asthma and as an anti-nauseate drug in chemotherapy treatment. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • But there is one still greater benefit; we have been assured that the tobacco worm which it was supposed from his natural taste, nothing could nauseate, actually gets sick of guano, and refuses his accustomed food Another mode of applying it to tobacco has been practised successfully as follows:--Mark off the land in checks and put a small spoonful in each check, and cover up directly under the bed where the plant is to stand, three or four inches deep. —  Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers
  • Others may purge and nauseate or cause vomiting, but it is believed that every recorded death from toadstool poisoning was caused by an Amanita, and unfortunately they are not only widespread and abundant, but they are much like the ordinary table mushrooms. —  Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
  • He tells what strumpet places sells for life, What 'squire his lands, what citizen his wife: And last (which proves him wiser still than all) What lady's face is not a whited wall As one of Woodward's patients, sick, and sore, I puke, I nauseate--yet he thrusts in more: Trims Europe's balance, tops the statesman's part, And talks gazettes and post-boys o'er by heart. —  An Essay on Man
 

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nauseate:   nauseated
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin nauseāre, nauseāt-, from nausea, nausea; see nausea.

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  1. from Latin nauseatus, past participle of nauseare (later It, nauseate = Spanish Portuguese nausear), from Greek ναυσιᾶν, ναυτιᾶν, be seasick, cause disgust, from ναυσία, ναυτία, seasickness: see nausea.
 

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