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adjective

Definition of nauseatednext
1
as in sick
affected with nausea being aboard ship during that storm would make anyone but the most experienced sailor nauseated

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as in shocked
filled with disgust nauseated critics panned the movie comedy for its celebration of unspeakably gross behavior

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nauseated

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verb

past tense of nauseate
as in disgusted
to cause to feel disgust such hateful graffiti would nauseate anyone with an ounce of human decency

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nauseated
  1. sick
  2. shocked
  3. nauseous
  4. disgusted
  5. sickened
  6. repulsed
  7. appalled
Adjective
  • The agency said Wednesday that the person was exposed to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks; this is the first US bird flu case linked to a backyard flock.
    Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The patient had been in contact with sick and dead birds in backyard flocks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
    Mike Stobbe and Jonel Aleccia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of sick
Adjective
  • Steffens — who looked shocked — said while smiling widely.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Binoche is the more unabashedly open of the two; at times, Fiennes seems shocked and sweetly shy in response to her candor.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of shocked
Adjective
  • Dehydrated, nauseous, sunburned Floridians flood emergency rooms when temperatures rise Last summer was one of the hottest on record and this year, temperatures in South Florida began to rise in April.
    Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2024
  • Jen Psaki accepted a piece of jerky, and, upon putting it in her mouth, looked nauseous, but was still too nice to protest.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of nauseous
Adjective
  • If anything, Allerton seems intermittently disgusted with Lee and himself, then attracted to Lee again.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Other fans were equally disgusted that Jaguars players were also ejected for the brawl that happened afterward.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of disgusted
Verb
  • An additional 20 individuals remain hospitalized after being sickened by the same bacterial contamination.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Dozens of people have been sickened nationwide by salmonella linked to the Sunfed cucumbers since the recall was announced late last month.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of sickened
Verb
  • Over decades, my attempts to conquer the Spanish language have been repulsed.
    Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The executions all took place in the space of roughly eight weeks after Iran repulsed the last incursion into its territory by the forces of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein at the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.
    Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
Definition of repulsed
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  • The Constitution’s framers would have been appalled at shielding incumbent presidents from criminal prosecution.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Several editors were appalled by the idea alone.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of appalled
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