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Nauseate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NAUSEATE, v.t.
1. To lothe; to reject with disgust.
The patient nauseates and lothes wholesome foods.
Old age, with silent pace, comes creeping on, Nauseates the praise which in her youth she won.
2. To affect with disgust.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach]
2: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-ated; -ating) Date: 1625 intransitive verb 1. to become affected with nausea 2. to feel disgust transitive verb to affect with nausea or disgust

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 tr. affect with nausea (was nauseated by the smell). 2 intr. (usu. foll. by at) loathe food, an occupation, etc.; feel sick. Derivatives: nauseating adj. nauseatingly adv. Etymology: L nauseare (as NAUSEA)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nauseate Nau"se*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nauseated; p. pr. & vb. n. Nauseating.] [L. nauseare, nauseatum, fr. nausea. See Nausea.] To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nauseate Nau"se*ate, v. t. 1. To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust. 2. To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe. The patient nauseates and loathes wholesome foods. --Blackmore.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(nauseates, nauseating, nauseated) If something nauseates you, it makes you feel as if you are going to vomit. The smell of frying nauseated her... She could not eat anything without feeling nauseated. VERB: V n, V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Feel nausea, feel disgust, grow qualmish. II. v. a. 1. Sicken, disgust, revolt, make sick, turn one's stomach, make one's gorge rise. 2. Loathe, abhor, detest, abominate, feel nausea or disgust at, shrink from, recoil from, reject with disgust.