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Nauseate   Listen
verb
Nauseate  v. t.  
1.
To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust.
2.
To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe. "The patient nauseates and loathes wholesome foods."





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"Nauseate" Quotes from Famous Books



... too much even of a good thing. A toast is good, and a bumper is not bad: but the best toasts may be so often repeated as to disgust the palate, and ceaseless rounds of bumpers may nauseate and overload the stomach. The ears of the most steady-voting politicians may at last be stunned with "three times three." I am sure I have been very grateful for the flattering remembrance made of me in the toasts of the Revolution Society, and of other clubs formed on the same laudable plan. ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... demonstration, reasoning, (things which seem to nauseate you,) which of these assertions is ...
— Sophisms of the Protectionists • Frederic Bastiat
... There were puffs of smoke when Davis opened the fire box to ply it with fuel. All the sour smells that rose from an unclean bilge eddied about them. The heat and the smell and the surging motion began to nauseate Stella. ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... what they will, the thing at which we all aim, even in virtue is pleasure. It amuses me to rattle in ears this word, which they so nauseate to and if it signify some supreme pleasure and contentment, it is more due to the assistance of virtue than to any other assistance whatever. This pleasure, for being more gay, more sinewy, more robust and more manly, is only the more seriously voluptuous, and we ought give it the name ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne


Words linked to "Nauseate" :   repel, nausea, outrage, shock, turn one's stomach, appal, appall, scandalise, sicken, repulse


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