seasickness
IPA: sˈisɪknʌs
noun
- Nausea, dizziness etc caused by the motion of a ship; a form of motion sickness.
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Examples of "seasickness" in Sentences
- Melville called seasickness “that dreadful thing.”
- Its called seasickness, duck, and it turns you green.
- "Maybe there is a head or two broken; 'tis mostly what we call seasickness, however."
- She was sure her seasickness was the worst that had ever been known, but we all feel that.
- Luckily seasickness is never fatal and next day we were all ready for an excursion to Norham Castle, a very ruinous ruin.
- She was prostrated by seasickness, which is no respecter of persons, and a more forlorn, unhappy mortal I never expect to see.
- The steady rocking motion of a ship also stimulates the semicircular canals, and to those who are not used to this overstimu-lation the result often is seasickness, which is an extremely unpleasant, though not really fatal affliction.
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