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nau⋅se⋅ate

  [naw-zee-eyt, -zhee-, -see-, -shee-] verb, -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing.
Use nauseated in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to affect with nausea; sicken.
2. to cause to feel extreme disgust: His vicious behavior toward the dogs nauseates me.
–verb (used without object)
3. to become affected with nausea.
Origin:
1630–40; < L nauseātus (ptp. of nauseāre to be seasick). See nausea, -ate 1

Synonyms:
2. revolt.

Antonyms:
2. attract, delight.

Usage note:
See nauseous.
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nau·se·ate   (nô'zē-āt', -zhē-, -sē-, -shē-)   
intr. & tr.v.   nau·se·at·ed, nau·se·at·ing, nau·se·ates

  1. To feel or cause to feel nausea.

  2. To feel or cause to feel loathing or disgust. See Synonyms at disgust.


[Latin nauseāre, nauseāt-, from nausea, nausea; see nausea.]
nau'se·a'tion n.
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Word Origin & History

nauseate 
1640, "to feel sick, to become affected with nausea," from pp. stem of L. nauseare, see nausea. In its early life it also had transitive senses of "to reject (food, etc.) with a feeling of nausea" (1646) and "to create a loathing in" (1654). Careful writers use nauseated for "sick at the stomach" and reserve nauseous (q.v.) for "sickening to contemplate."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: nau·se·ate
Pronunciation: 'no-z(h)E-"At, -s(h)E-
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -at·ed; -at·ing
intransitive senses
: to become affected with nausea nauseate transitive senses
: to affect with nausea
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Medical Dictionary

nauseate nau·se·ate (nô'zē-āt', -zhē-, -sē-, -shē-)
v. nau·se·at·ed, nau·se·at·ing, nau·se·ates
To feel or cause to feel nausea.

nauseated nau·se·at·ed (nô'zē-ā'tĭd, -zhē-, -sē-, -shē-)
adj.
Affected with nausea.

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