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Nauseating

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Causing nausea; nauseous.

adj. Causing disgust, loathing, or revulsion. See Usage Note at nauseous.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. causing disgust, revulsion or loathing

adj. causing nausea

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. causing or able to cause nausea

Word Usage

"In their report, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers describe two cases in which patients discontinued use of generic metformin because of what they described as the nauseating smell of the drug."

Verb Form

nauseated nauseates nauseating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

disgust revolt gross out repel

Form

nauseated nauseating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sicken loathe disgust revolt repulse offend repel sick make