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to nauseate

to nauseate

3 6.9
To make someone feel sick or disgusted
  • verb
  • /ˈnɔːziˌeɪt/
translation icon : nausear
  • Others do notice so much stuttering that it nauseates them.

Examples

  • As a teacher, I've found it useful to see what engages students and what nauseates them.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The smell of rotten food can nauseate anyone who walks by.

  • In fact they nauseate me.

    Watch Out (2008)

  • The very sight of them is starting to nauseate me.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • You nauseated me then, and you nauseate me now.

    Alone in the Dark 2 (2008)

  • Sweet as it is, honey nauseates me.

    Blog text (3)

  • That little creep nauseates me.

    Blog text (27)

  • They nauseate me.

    Endangered (2022)

  • Actually, it nauseates me.

    Blog text (21)

  • I'm not a US citizen, but reading the stuff you're arguing against literally nauseates me.

    Blog text (13)

Synonyms

to disgust
vsto nauseate
83 2.1

To make someone feel strong dislike and sick because something is offensive

adds a physical sick reaction as well as intense revulsion
to revolt
vsto nauseate
29 5.3

Make someone feel strong disgust or moral horror

leans toward causing physical sickness or general revulsion
to gross out
vsto nauseate
  • Informal
14 7.3

Make someone feel disgusted or sick

is a neutral or formal term rather than slang
to sicken
vsto nauseate
11 4.1

Make someone feel physically ill or upset

causes someone to feel sick or very strong revulsion
to turn one's stomach
vsto nauseate
6 7.0

To make you feel sick or disgusted

is the neutral single word form rather than an idiom
to churn up
vsto nauseate
  • Informal
1 7.3

Make people feel strong disgust or moral upset

focuses more on causing physical sickness or intense revulsion

Antonyms

to please
216 1.0

To make someone happy or satisfied

to comfort
172 1.0

To make someone feel less upset or in pain

How Sickening

to nauseate
3 6.9
to sicken
11 4.1

Surface Forms

nauseate infinitive
nauseated past
nauseated past participle
nauseating present participle
nauseates third person singular

Morphology

nauseate = nausea (transparent) = nausea + ate

The verb is directly formed from the noun 'nausea' with the verbalizing suffix '-ate', meaning 'to cause or experience nausea', which is clear to learners who know 'nausea'.

Etymology

Nauseate comes from an old Greek word nausia meaning 'seasickness', from naus meaning 'ship'. People who felt sick on ships gave this name to the feeling, so nauseate now means 'to make someone feel sick or very disgusted', and you can remember it by thinking of seasickness and the ship root in nautical.