Definition of "nauseate" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To cause nausea in.

2. (transitive) To disgust.

3. (intransitive) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.

   • 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 London, 1753, p. 594, 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.

5. (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To be disgusted by (something).

   • 1796, Frances Burney, Camilla, London: T. Payne, T. Cadell & W. Davies, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7, p. 151, 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.