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Nauseate

//ˈnɔziˌeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause nausea in. transitive

    "[…] 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."

  2. 2
    cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of wordnet
  3. 3
    To disgust. transitive

    "[…] I have not treated you as a Wise man would have done in silence, but it is time to put an end to this tittle tattle which has nauseated you for three days together."

  4. 4
    upset and make nauseated wordnet
  5. 5
    To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust. intransitive

    "As one of Woodward’s Patients, sick and sore, I puke, I nauseate,—yet he thrusts in more;"

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  1. 6
    To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea. obsolete, transitive

    "[…] he made a Sign to me, that the Salt was not good to eat, and putting a little into his own Mouth, he seem’d to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washing his Mouth with fresh Water after it […]"

  2. 7
    To be disgusted by (something). figuratively, obsolete, transitive

    "Old Age, with silent pace, comes creeping on, Nauseates the Praise, which in her Youth she won, And hates the Muse by which she was undone."

Etymology

From earlier nauseat, from Latin nauseātus (“nauseated”), perfect past participle of nauseō (“to feel sea sick, nauseate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía), from ναῦς (naûs), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. By surface analysis, nausea + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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