nauseate

IPA: nˈɔzieɪt

verb

  • (transitive) To cause nausea in.
  • (transitive) To disgust.
  • (intransitive) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
  • (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To be disgusted by (something).
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Examples of "nauseate" in Sentences

  • He was nauseated and fevered.
  • Nauseates are akin to direct emetics.
  • He is nauseated by the scent of feces.
  • He is nauseated by the scent of cloying, reckless happiness.
  • His sickeningly sweet breath breezed across the short distance separating them to nauseate her.
  • I'm not afraid of them, but when they move in large packs trying to look threatening, they nauseate me.
  • Their scent could nauseate her even when fresh, but these flowers have started to turn, stamens spilling rust along the ledge.
  • 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.”
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • "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."

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