Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nauseate"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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