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nauseate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɔziˌeɪt/ (General-American)
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Etymology

From earlier nauseat, from Latin nauseātus (“nauseated”), perfect past participle of nauseō (“to feel sea sick, nauseate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía), from ναῦς (naûs), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. By surface analysis, nausea + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause nausea in.
   • After another three-quarters of an hour we pick up eleven children, nearly all of them objectionable on the score of smell. The air we breathe over and over begins to be so foul that it nauseates me. 1933, Frederick Philip Grove, Fruits of the Earth, Chapter:
   • […] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated. 1878, Henry James, “Honoré de Balzac”, in French Poets and Novelists, London: Macmillan, II, p. 122:
2. (transitive) To disgust.
   • […] can you, will you pronounce it ill meant, at least of him, when anxious for his son’s morals, with a view to form him to virtue, and inspire him with a fixed, a rational contempt for vice, he condescended to be his master of the ceremonies, and led him by the hand through the most noted bawdy-houses in town, where he took care he should be familiarized with all those scenes of debauchery, so fit to nauseate a good taste? 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the Second:
   • […] he is repeating his confounded jokes until they quite nauseate. 1861, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Lovel the Widower, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 131:
   • […] I have not treated you as a Wise man would have done in silence, but it is time to put an end to this tittle tattle which has nauseated you for three days together. 1681, Henry Neville, Plato Redivivus: or, A Dialogue concerning Government, London: S.I, page 270:
3. (intransitive) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
   • I prescribed Iodized Lime, 1-2 grain every half hour. The stomach soon began to nauseate. 1903 January, W. T. Ray, “Specific Treatment for Membranous Croup”, in Oklahoma Medical News-Journal, volume 12, number 1, published 1904, page 16:
   • As one of Woodward’s Patients, sick and sore, I puke, I nauseate,—yet he thrusts in more; 1733, Alexander Pope, The Impertinent, or A Visit to the Court. A Satyr, London: John Wileord, page 11:
4. (obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
   • […] the people appear to be in the unhappy state of a patient whose palate nauseates the medicine best calculated for the cure of his disease, and seem anxious to continue in the full enjoyment of their chattering epidemick. 1807 September 19, Washington Irving, “From Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan”, in Salmagundi, volume 2, number 4, page 286:
   • 1753, J. Wall, A letter from J. Wall M.D. to Edward Wilmot M.D.F.R.S. and Physician to His Majesty, concerning the Use of the Peruvian Bark in the Small Pox, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1753, p. 594, In Children and delicate Persons, who are apt to nauseate this Remedy, I have with Success given it mix’d up with thin Chocolate; which, if sufficiently sweetened, disguises it better than any thing I know of.
   • […] he made a Sign to me, that the Salt was not good to eat, and putting a little into his own Mouth, he seem’d to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washing his Mouth with fresh Water after it […] 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 251:
5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To be disgusted by (something).
   • 1796, Frances Burney, Camilla, London: T. Payne, T. Cadell & W. Davies, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7, p. 151, What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing and performing what is wrong.
   • The organs that are gratified with the taste of sickly veal bled into a palsy, crammed fowls, and dropsical brawn, pease without substance, peaches without taste, and pine-apples without flavour, will certainly nauseate the native, genuine, and salutary taste of Welch beef, Banstead mutton, and barn-door fowls, whose juices are concocted by a natural digestion, and whose flesh is consolidated by free air and exercise. 1798, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays and Criticisms, London: J. Johnson, Volume II, Essay 13, p. 144:
   • Old Age, with silent pace, comes creeping on, Nauseates the Praise, which in her Youth she won, And hates the Muse by which she was undone. 1692, “The Seventh Satyr”, in Charles Dryden, transl., edited by John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, 3rd edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1702, page 137:

Forms

Deriveds

nauseative

Synonyms

revolt · disgust · offend · sicken · make sick · repel · repulse

Translations (23)

es dar náusea (To cause nausea) · mi whakamākinokino (To revolt, to disgust) · pl przyprawić o mdłości (To cause nausea) · es causar náuseas (To cause nausea) · es nausear (To cause nausea) · es producir náusea (To cause nausea) · es nausear (To revolt, to disgust) · nl misselijk maken (To cause nausea) · lad bulanear (To cause nausea) · es dar náuseas (To cause nausea) · pl przyprawiać o nudności (To cause nausea) · pl przyprawiać o mdłości (To revolt, to disgust) · es producir náuseas (To cause nausea) · pl przyprawić o nudności (To revolt, to disgust) · es provocar náusea (To cause nausea) · mi whakapairuaki (To cause nausea) · sq efshoj (To cause nausea) · es causar náusea (To cause nausea) · es provocar náuseas (To cause nausea) · pl przyprawić o nudności (To cause nausea) · pl przyprawiać o mdłości (To cause nausea) · pl przyprawiać o nudności (To revolt, to disgust) · pl przyprawić o mdłości (To revolt, to disgust)