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nauseate

[naw-zee-eyt, -zhee-, -see-, -shee-] / ˈnɔ ziˌeɪt, -ʒi-, -si-, -ʃi- /


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Some people have reported that the headsets nauseate them.

From New York Times Nov. 5, 2021

“Real Time with Bill Maher” acts as a sounding board for its admittedly clever host, who can often amuse, enlighten and nauseate in the same string of sentences.

From Salon Sep. 21, 2019

As team doctors administered triage, the broadcast danced between vantage points, carefully avoiding any shots that would further nauseate viewers.

From Slate Oct. 19, 2017

The prerelease build of Obduction I tried in the Oculus Rift didn’t nauseate me, although it suffered from the occasional frame rate drop — one of the issues Cyan is still ironing out.

From The Verge Sep. 10, 2016

He was afraid that it might nauseate him and he would vomit and lose his strength.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

He is, in other words, an almost nauseatingly successful prospect in a sport that more often nauseates once-successful prospects for years before they find their way.

From Washington Post Apr. 29, 2023

That, obviously, nauseates moderates, who’d prefer something that’s either half of that or lower.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2021

“But its reality has become so overwhelming that it kind of nauseates me,” she said.

From The New Yorker Oct. 24, 2018

McKay’s book, Du Bois wrote, “for the most part nauseates me, and after the dirtier parts of its filth I feel distinctly like taking a bath.”

From New York Times May 3, 2015

“And the priest keeps touching my mouth and it nauseates me,” Jaja said.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

By the end, both of us felt slightly nauseated, though not by the food.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2026

We can only imagine how nauseated Selzer was when she first saw these numbers, knowing that it would tarnish her reputation.

From Slate Dec. 21, 2024

People who were nauseated by the drugs were more likely to report increased food waste.

From Science Daily Nov. 21, 2024

The effect can be vertiginous—so the way people avoid being nauseated is by trying to ignore the dissonance.

From Salon May 29, 2024

But above all he was nauseated with himself, with his perfumed hair, with the smell of wine from his mouth, with the soft, flabby appearance of his skin.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

There are flies, rats and, if the wind shifts every so slightly, a waft of thick, nauseating air from the warehouse.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

A cloud of smoke hung over the town of Ille-sur-Tet, where residents described the nauseating smell of burning.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

A rom-com need not be a sparkling shelf covered with bon-bons, but it shouldn’t be a nauseating cloud of carbon monoxide that makes you want to flee.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

It was infested with rats and cockroaches, and smelt "nauseating".

From BBC Mar. 4, 2026

His head swam with the nauseating ache, and for a moment he fell asleep.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green




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