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Nauseating   /nˈɔʒiˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Nauseate  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."



Nauseate  v. i.  (past & past part. nauseated; pres. part. nauseating)  To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Nauseating" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a warmish, brackish tasting liquid which causes the patient to hasten to rid herself of it; or, as she rides on the train, on the street cars, in a carriage or automobile, she frequently senses the same unpleasant and nauseating symptoms during the second and third months of pregnancy. Normally, this uncomfortable symptom quite disappears by the end of the third month. A number of remedies have been suggested for it, but that which seems to help one, gives little or no relief to another; we therefore mention a variety ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... to Gordon Makimmon that, as he walked, the hurt within him was consuming flesh and bone; it was eating away his brain. The thick, salty taste persisted in his mouth, nauseating him. ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

... General D'Hubert, either stretched on his back with his hands over his eyes or lying on his breast, with his face buried in a cushion, made the full pilgrimage of emotions. Nauseating disgust at the absurdity of the situation, dread of the fate that could play such a vile trick on a man, awe at the remote consequences of an apparently insignificant and ridiculous event in his past, doubt of his own fitness to conduct his existence and mistrust of his best sentiments—for ...
— The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale • Joseph Conrad

... him at their meeting.... Their meeting—their parting! At thought of that corollary, a cold despair clutched the lad, a despair that was nothing like the sedate sorrow over leaving his mother, a despair that was physical sickness, wrenching, nauseating, but passed beyond the physical to rack the deeps of being. For the first time, jealousy surged hideous in him, born of the realization that she must be left exposed to the wooing of other men—she, the utterly desirable! In a fierce impulse of mingled fear and rage, he stopped ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily

... write. In the south, Aymara is chiefly spoken; but further north, Quechua is the commoner language. I saw several bull fights in the bullring of which the town boasts, but they were so very disgusting that I refrain from nauseating ...
— Argentina From A British Point Of View • Various


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