Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive & transitive verb To feel or cause to feel nausea.
  • intransitive & transitive verb To feel or cause to feel loathing or disgust. synonym: disgust.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To become affected with nausea or sick at the stomach; be inclined to vomit.
  • To loathe; reject with disgust.
  • To affect with nausea; cause to feel loathing.
  • Synonyms To sicken, disgust, revolt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust.
  • transitive verb To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe.
  • intransitive verb To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To cause nausea.
  • verb To disgust.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
  • verb upset and make nauseated

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin nauseāre, nauseāt-, from nausea, nausea; see nausea.]

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Examples

  • As for Rummy, did you hear his parting assertion that Bush and his cadre are the few who really understand what’s going on in this, “the first war of the 21st century” (the assumptions of that phrase nauseate me).

    mjh's blog — 2006 — November 2006

  • Quotes like this generally nauseate me: “But the world would be a better place if people thought of these things in a more statistically informed way.”

    Matthew Yglesias » For Better Thinking 2010

  • I'm not afraid of them, but when they move in large packs trying to look threatening, they nauseate me.

    Here we are now, entertain us (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Quotes like this generally nauseate me: “But the world would be a better place if people thought of these things in a more statistically informed way.”

    Matthew Yglesias » For Better Thinking 2010

  • Their scent could nauseate her even when fresh, but these flowers have started to turn, stamens spilling rust along the ledge.

    Girl 2010

  • His sickeningly sweet breath breezed across the short distance separating them to nauseate her.

    SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010

  • "And the further irony," he adds, "is that the younger generations who are less impressed by whiz-bang technology, who often see through what is slick and glitzy, and who have been on the receiving end of enough marketing to nauseate them, are as likely to walk away from these oh-so-relevant churches as to walk into them."

    The Perils of 'Wannabe Cool' Christianity Brett McCracken 2010

  • His sickeningly sweet breath breezed across the short distance separating them to nauseate her.

    SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010

  • The first designer began kissing James Cameron's butt, but before he could nauseate the whole room, he was shoved aside so a co-winner could make it about his own overcoming of a death-sentence-illness to survive to this triumph.

    Tallulah Morehead: The Our Gang Oscars 2010

  • The first designer began kissing James Cameron's butt, but before he could nauseate the whole room, he was shoved aside so a co-winner could make it about his own overcoming of a death-sentence-illness to survive to this triumph.

    The Our Gang Oscars 2010

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