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
Leone’s creation has gained a substantial cult following thanks to its throwback grindhouse aesthetics, nauseating practical effects, and unapologetic brutality.
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Akira luxuriates in the scene’s nauseating sounds, and the visual transformation is almost tactile.
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Ros and his team specialize in shuttling clients by air, over the notoriously nauseating Drake Passage, to rendezvous with a waiting expedition vessel.
—Brad Japhe, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2025
Feeling nauseated on shipboard canforce one to go below deck to recover.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Akira luxuriates in the scene’s nauseating sounds, and the visual transformation is almost tactile.
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Ros and his team specialize in shuttling clients by air, over the notoriously nauseating Drake Passage, to rendezvous with a waiting expedition vessel.
—Brad Japhe, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2025
Feeling nauseated on shipboard canforce one to go below deck to recover.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nauseate
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In 2017, the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to a team of English and French researchers who used advanced brain-scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by cheese.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Anyone who believes that our access to essential medicines should be based on science, not political ideology, should be disgusted by these legal attacks.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Dec. 2025
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For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander—they were actually aroused by it—and our politics have not been the same.—
Jeffrey Goldberg,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Nicole is the kind of wife who moves out of her father’s home into her husband’s home, and who has been taught to be repulsed by the mushroom spores covering her body, just like all the women in their community.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2026
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Most of those sickened were not vaccinated, and two children died.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Just thinking about it totally sickens me.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan. 2026
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Of all the recent poster boys for appalling misbehavior by the State Police, Michael Proctor would of course rank number one.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
4 Jan. 2026
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Russia and China claim to be appalled, too, but to use a classic diplomatic expression, the leaders in Beijing and Moscow should be invited, with all due respect, to shut their traps.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2026
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Flojaune Cofer, who lost a close race in 2024 for Sacramento mayor and has been mulling a run for the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, said she was horrified by the news out of Venezuela.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
3 Jan. 2026
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Some viewers were horrified while others were intrigued.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Nauseate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nauseate. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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