nauseates

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
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
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
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
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...