car sickness
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- noun
- /kɑr ˈsɪk.nəs/
:
mareo por movimiento
- She took medication before the journey to avoid car sickness.
Examples
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Here we learn that cats, unlike dogs, hardly ever suffer from car sickness.
Fiction book (1999) -
On the ride up, Helen was threatening car sickness, and my mother was humming, feeling guilty about refusing to let Bertie come live with us.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many children experience car sickness during long road trips.
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To prevent car sickness, it's advisable to sit in the front seat and look at the horizon.
Synonyms
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A sick feeling in your stomach that makes you want to vomit
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A strong feeling in the stomach that makes you want to throw up
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Feeling dizzy and sick when you travel in cars, boats or planes
A feeling of dizziness and sickness when traveling in a car or boat
Antonyms
How Sick
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'nausea caused by riding in a car' is directly and transparently built from 'car' (a vehicle) + 'sickness' (feeling of nausea); the modifier simply specifies the type/source of sickness. This noun-compounding pattern is common across languages and follows normal English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun car sickness comes from a simple picture: sitting in a moving car while your body and eyes do not agree, so you get sickness in your stomach. So, car sickness means 'to feel sick' while riding in a car.