nauseate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
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).
Inflected forms:
form: nauseates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nauseating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nauseated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nauseated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause nausea in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] 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.
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.
gloss: To disgust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] 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.
[…] 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?
[…] he is repeating his confounded jokes until they quite nauseate.
gloss: To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As one of Woodward’s Patients, sick and sore,
I puke, I nauseate,—yet he thrusts in more;
I prescribed Iodized Lime, 1-2 grain every half hour. The stomach soon began to nauseate.
gloss: To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […] 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 […]
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.
[…] 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.
gloss: To be disgusted by (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
Synonyms: disgust
make sick
offend
repel
repulse
revolt
sicken
Derived words: nauseative
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