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Definition of Nauseate

1. Verb. Upset and make nauseated. "The mold on the food sickened the diners"

2. Verb. Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of. "The performance is likely to nauseate Sue"; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"

Definition of Nauseate

1. v. i. To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

2. v. t. To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust.

Definition of Nauseate

1. Verb. To cause nausea. ¹

2. Verb. To disgust. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nauseate

1. to affect with nausea [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Medical Definition of Nauseate

1. To cause an inclination to vomit. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nauseate

naumachias naumachies naumachy naunt naunts naupathia nauplial nauplii nauplius nauscopy

nausea nausea gravidarum nauseant nauseants nauseas nauseate (current term) nauseated nauseates nauseatic nauseating

nauseatingly nauseatingness nauseation nauseations nauseative nauseous nauseously nauseousness nauseousnesses nauseæ

Literary usage of Nauseate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"S. See DISGUST, ABHORRENCE, AVERSION. nauseate, vi sicken, rise (of the stomach), turn (of the stomach), spleen (rare). ..."

2. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... might discover; and other such kind of vain follies, whereof the early observation might possibly help to make his lordship nauseate all kind of vanity, ..."

3. Casket of Reminiscences by Henry Stuart Foote (1874)
"Such details as these might well nauseate any one with the whole business of dueling. I could relate several more such scenes almost equally agonizing ..."

4. Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of the by Olinthus Gregory (1829)
"... that they are critical beyond measure, and adopt those " refinements in criticism " which make men nauseate what is obvious, and (p) " It hath been the ..."

5. The Trollopiad, Or, Travelling Gentlemen in America: Or, Travelling by Frederick William Shelton (1837)
"While BRANDRETH puts a stop to human ills, And the sick world grows nauseate with his PILLS, exorbitant charges for ruining their teeth, and for days and ..."

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