seasickness

[ see-sik-nis ]
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noun
  1. nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.

Origin of seasickness

1
First recorded in 1615–25; sea + sickness

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How to use seasickness in a sentence

  • And there, to be frank, she forgot her fright in as bitter a tribute of seasickness as even the channel has ever exacted.

    The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The voyager embarks, and is in all probability confined to his cabin, suffering under the dreadful protraction of seasickness.

    Newton Forster | Captain Frederick Marryat
  • I do not know whether it was the result of seasickness, or what it was, but everything in Hati looked crooked.

  • Neither would suffer further from seasickness, they felt sure.

  • He was weak and wretched with long seasickness and loss of sleep, and staggered as he walked along the wharf like a drunken man.

    Sevenoaks | J. G. Holland