nauseate
pronunciation
How to pronounce nauseate in British English:
UK [ˈnɔ:zieɪt]
How to pronounce nauseate in American English:
US [ˈnɔziˌet, -ʒi-, -si-, -ʃi-]
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- Verb:
- upset and make nauseated
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
Word Origin
- nauseate (v.)
- 1630s, "to feel sick, to become affected with nausea," from nauseat- past participle stem of Latin nauseare "to feel seasick, to vomit," also "to cause disgust," from nausea (see nausea). Related: Nauseated; nauseating; nauseatingly. In its early life it also had transitive senses of "to reject (food, etc.) with a feeling of nausea" (1640s) and "to create a loathing in, to cause nausea" (1650s). Careful writers use nauseated for "sick at the stomach" and reserve nauseous (q.v.) for "sickening to contemplate."
Example
- 1. Love and sex built upon only money just makes me nauseate .
- 2. I began to nauseate the place I was in .
- 3. He was afraid that it might nauseate him and he would vomit and lose his strength .
- 4. The fda 's warnings are the latest attempt by a government to nauseate and petrify its citizenry .