nauseate
Verb
Verb Forms: nauseated, nauseating, nauseates
- To make someone feel sick or disgusted.
- upset and make nauseated
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
- To cause nausea in.
- To disgust.
- To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
- To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
- To be disgusted by (something).
Examples
- The thought of drawing a Q without a U could nauseate any serious Scrabble player.
Origin / Etymology
From earlier nauseat, from Latin nauseātus (“nauseated”), perfect past participle of nauseō (“to feel sea sick, nauseate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía), from ναῦς (naûs), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. By surface analysis, nausea + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Scrabble Score: 8
nauseate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordnauseate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nauseate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
nauseate: valid Words With Friends Word