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
The chandeliers shook gently with the motion of the waves, sending shadows dancing in a nauseating rhythm all throughout the room.
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Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
Americans are nauseated as an outbreak of the stomach flu hits the country.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
Months later, following a September heat wave that trapped nauseating sewer gas odors, the district launched an online dashboard to track sewer gas levels and an index to advise the public on what to do.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2024
Americans are nauseated as an outbreak of the stomach flu hits the country.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
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Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
Americans are nauseated as an outbreak of the stomach flu hits the country.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
Months later, following a September heat wave that trapped nauseating sewer gas odors, the district launched an online dashboard to track sewer gas levels and an index to advise the public on what to do.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2024
Americans are nauseated as an outbreak of the stomach flu hits the country.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nauseate
Verb
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Vara, like many of her readers, is both enchanted by the web and disgusted with the companies that control it.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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The judge, though disgusted at her antics, still stands firm in his decision to give the prosecution access to those records because the reports about the divorce are still accessible to the jury.—
Ayan Artan,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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About 70 people have been sickened by bird flu, mainly poultry and dairy workers, CDC data shows.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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So far there have been no children sickened in connection to the recall, the federal agency is reporting.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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As Saxon and Lochlan try to decipher what happened between them, we are asked to think about why we’re aroused (or repulsed) by it.—
Louis Staples,
Rolling Stone,
24 Mar. 2025
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Even as the Russians massed forces and achieved a three-to-one advantage in troops in Kursk late last year, the Ukrainians held on—deploying mines, drones and artillery to repeatedly repulse Russian mechanized assaults.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Dismay or appall you, sure, but never surprise you.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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That kind of appalls me to think that people need not expect that of themselves.—
David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2024
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In Hartford, Nettie Parker and two friends said they were horrified by immigrants disappearing off the streets.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2025
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Fierce and determined, and then uncertain and horrified by the toll this vital work takes on her personal life, Knightley is at her masterful, understated best.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Nauseate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nauseate. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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