verb
Meaning 1
To cause nausea in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
nauseate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈnɔziˌeɪt/
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verb
Meaning 2
To disgust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To be disgusted by (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete, transitive
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The pornographic pictures sickened us
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disgust, revolt, sicken, churn up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: repel, repulse
Narrower terms: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage
verb
Meaning 7
upset and make nauseated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach
- The mold on the food sickened the diners
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sicken, turn one's stomach
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disgust, gross out, revolt, repel
History
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).
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: efshoj — To cause nausea
- Ladino: bulanear — To cause nausea
- Māori: whakapairuaki — To cause nausea
- Spanish: nausear — To cause nausea
- Spanish: producir náusea — To cause nausea
- Spanish: producir náuseas — To cause nausea
- Spanish: causar náusea — To cause nausea
- Spanish: causar náuseas — To cause nausea
- Spanish: provocar náusea — To cause nausea
- Spanish: provocar náuseas — To cause nausea
- Spanish: dar náusea — To cause nausea
- Spanish: dar náuseas — To cause nausea
- Māori: whakamākinokino — To revolt, to disgust
- Spanish: nausear — To revolt, to disgust