nauseate

Verb

nauseate (third-person singular simple present nauseates, present participle nauseating, simple past and past participle nauseated)

1. (transitive) To cause nausea in.
   • […] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.1878, Henry James, “Honoré de Balzac”, in French Poets and Novelists, London: Macmillan, II, p. 122
   • After another three-quarters of an hour we pick up eleven children, nearly all of them objectionable on the score of smell. The air we breathe over and over begins to be so foul that it nauseates me.1933, Frederick Philip Grove, Fruits of the Earth, Chapter
2. (transitive) To disgust.
   • […] I have not treated you as a Wise man would have done in silence, but it is time to put an end to this tittle tattle which has nauseated you for three days together.1681, Henry Neville, Plato Redivivus: or, A Dialogue concerning Government, London: S.I, page 270
   • […] can you, will you pronounce it ill meant, at least of him, when anxious for his son’s morals, with a view to form him to virtue, and inspire him with a fixed, a rational contempt for vice, he condescended to be his master of the ceremonies, and led him by the hand through the most noted...1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the Second
3. (intransitive) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
   • As one of Woodward’s Patients, sick and sore,
     I puke, I nauseate,—yet he thrusts in more;1733, Alexander Pope, The Impertinent, or A Visit to the Court. A Satyr, London: John Wileord, page 11
   • I prescribed Iodized Lime, 1-2 grain every half hour. The stomach soon began to nauseate.1903 January, W. T. Ray, “Specific Treatment for Membranous Croup”, in Oklahoma Medical News-Journal, volume 12, number 1, published 1904, page 16
4. (obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
   • […] he made a Sign to me, that the Salt was not good to eat, and putting a little into his own Mouth, he seem’d to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washing his Mouth with fresh Water after it […]1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 251
   • In Children and delicate Persons, who are apt to nauseate this Remedy, I have with Success given it mix’d up with thin Chocolate; which, if sufficiently sweetened, disguises it better than any thing I know of.1753, J. Wall, A letter from J. Wall M.D. to Edward Wilmot M.D.F.R.S. and Physician to His Majesty, concerning the Use of the Peruvian Bark in the Small Pox, Proceedings of the Royal Society of...
5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To be disgusted by (something).
   • Old Age, with silent pace, comes creeping on,
     Nauseates the Praise, which in her Youth she won,
     And hates the Muse by which she was undone.1692, “The Seventh Satyr”, in Charles Dryden, transl., edited by John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, 3rd edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1702...
   • What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing and performing what is wrong.1796, Frances Burney, Camilla, London: T. Payne, T. Cadell & W. Davies, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7, p. 151