as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
such hateful graffiti would nauseate anyone with an ounce of human decency
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Recent Examples of nauseate
The sound that accompanies his subsequent mechanical breakdown is every bit as nauseating as the show's more organic moments.
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
When the food came, Jon said he was too nauseated to eat more than a few bites.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
You are nauseated by the smells.
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
However, within hours of consuming them, your heart starts racing, you’re nauseated and vomiting.
—Joshua Kellogg, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2025
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
When the food came, Jon said he was too nauseated to eat more than a few bites.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
You are nauseated by the smells.
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
However, within hours of consuming them, your heart starts racing, you’re nauseated and vomiting.
—Joshua Kellogg, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nauseate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nauseate
Verb
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Unlike Jones, who has not been charged with any crime — disgusting as his texts are — James Is under federal indictment for mortgage and bank fraud.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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People are disgusted with Israel’s response.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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While there are dismemberments and other bits of gruesome violence to be found in the film, Badlands is largely aimed at endearing its audience rather than repulsing them.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
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Of course, one major qualifier for this is the fact there are plenty of reasons for even moderate Democrats to be repulsed at the idea of electing Cuomo.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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One of those flight attendants spoke about what happened after a 2023 flight in which crew members and passengers were sickened by fumes.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Oct. 2025
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Salmonella is a genus of bacteria that can sicken humans.—
Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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There would have been people who were appalled by what was going on.—
James Frater,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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But, increasingly, events that should appall and unite America against violence instead fuel an intensifying partisanship.—
John Archibald,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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With much of the world horrified by the USSR’s brutality, Eisenhower was furious that the British-French-Israeli offensive was both diverting international attention and handing Moscow a PR victory by enabling it to speak about Western aggression in the Middle East.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The culprit here is a sequence where a deranged surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) attempts to graft a new face onto his daughter’s disfigured one, a scene that — while mild by today’s standards — horrified audiences in 1960.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Nauseate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nauseate. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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