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" Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home."
Steve Largent

Meaning of "nauseating" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF NAUSEATING

ˈnɔːzɪeɪtɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NAUSEATING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nauseating is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NAUSEATING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nausea

Nausea is a sensation of unease and discomfort in the upper stomach with an involuntary urge to vomit. It often, but not always, precedes vomiting. A person can suffer nausea without vomiting. Nausea is a non-specific symptom, which means that it has many possible causes. Some common causes of nausea are motion sickness, dizziness, migraine, fainting, gastroenteritis or food poisoning. Side effects of many medications including cancer chemotherapy, nauseants or morning sickness in early pregnancy. Nausea may also be caused by anxiety, disgust and depression. Medications taken to prevent and treat nausea are called antiemetics. The most commonly prescribed antiemetics in the US are promethazine, metoclopramide and ondansetron.

Definition of nauseating in the English dictionary

The definition of nauseating in the dictionary is making you feel as if you are going to vomit. Other definition of nauseating is disgusting to the mind or senses; revolting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NAUSEATING

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NAUSEATING

nauplii · naupliiform · nauplioid · nauplius · Nauru · Nauruan · nausea · nauseam · nauseant · nauseate · nauseatingly · nauseation · nauseative · nauseous · nauseously · nauseousness · nautch · nautical · nautical almanac · nautical mile

WORDS THAT END LIKE NAUSEATING

accommodating · accounting · beating · boating · captivating · central heating · cheating · coating · dominating · eating · floating · heating · oscillating · overheating · penetrating · plating · repeating · seating · star rating · sweating · vibrating

Synonyms and antonyms of nauseating in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «NAUSEATING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «nauseating» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «nauseating» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NAUSEATING

Find out the translation of nauseating to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of nauseating from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nauseating» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

肉麻
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

nauseabunda
570 millions of speakers
en

English

nauseating
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

nauseating
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مقرف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

тошнотворный
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

nauseante
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বমনোদ্রেককর
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

nauséabonde
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Nauseating
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

ekelerregend
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

おぞましい
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

구역질
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nauseating
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

buồn nôn
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வெறுப்பைத்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

विघटन करणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

mide bulandırıcı
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

nauseante
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

mdły
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

нудотний
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

scabros
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αηδιαστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

walglike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kväljande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kvalm
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nauseating

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NAUSEATING»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nauseating

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10 QUOTES WITH «NAUSEATING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nauseating.
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Roz Chast
I don't put myself through that nauseating experience of looking at someone's face while they go through your stuff. Ugh! It's just horrible! It gives me the cringes to even think about it.
2
Jean Genet
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
3
Siri Hustvedt
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.
4
Charles Kennedy
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
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Steve Largent
Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.
6
F. L. Lucas
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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Brennan Manning
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.
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Gerhard Richter
Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.
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Ken Stott
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.
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Dick York
My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAUSEATING»

Discover the use of nauseating in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nauseating and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ultimate Everything Kids' Gross Out Book: Nasty and ...
Kids love anything that oozes, squirms, or is otherwise gross—and this book has it all.
Beth L. Blair, Jennifer Ericsson, 2008
2
Religion, Reality, and a Good Life: A Philosophical Approach ...
representation of reality. However it must be pointed out that all emotions are not simply such responses. In order to make the difference clear, Zag- zebski compares the words 'nauseating' and rude. The word 'nauseating' means descriptively ...
Eberhard Herrmann, 2004
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Prophecies, Visions, Occurrences, and Dreams: From Jehovah ...
Tuesday in Spanish and Non-understandable Tongues. Nauseating. She's nauseating Me. Nauseating to Me. She's nauseating to Me. She's nauseating to Me, My son. Yes. Nauseating Me. Nauseating to Me. She's nauseating to Me, My son.
Raymond Aguilera, 2000
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Reality, Representation, and Projection
Moreover, and this is important, we take this to be so despite the fact that we unreflectively describe our experiences of the nauseating in apparently representational terms — that is, as experiences of the nauseating — and thus despite the ...
John Haldane, Crispin Wright, 1993
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A Synopsis of lectures on medical science
fail — as it is as innocent as it is powerful — the only objection to its use being the very property (the nauseating) which makes it the most valuable, I commence the list with this article. Lobelia inflata is, at once the most speedy, powerful and ...
Alva Curtis, 1858
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A treatise on therapeutics, and pharmacology or materia medica
Diaphoretics or Sudorifies. I. General Observations, with the consideration of Heat and Water as diaphoretic agents. II. Nauseating DiapHoretics — Tartar Emetic, Ipecacuanha, the Powder of Ipecacuanha and Opium or Dover's Powder, &c. III.
George Bacon Wood, 1856
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A Treatise on therapeutics, and pharmacology, or materia media
All emetic substances, which have the nauseating property in any considerable degree, are capable of operating as diaphoretics. In the condition of nausea, as explained in the preceding general observations, there is a universal relaxation of ...
George Bacon Wood, 1860
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Materia Medica; Or, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
_ There can not be said to be any nauseating compound P1'i11°1P1'°'5 of inorganic or chimical origin ; but certain elements seem t0 P05" sess this power per se, and certain other elements, though not p0S895' sing it per se, invariably impart ...
William Tully, 1857
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Glossary for the Worldwide Transportation of Dangerous Goods ...
Nauseating agents are violent irritants used in those uncommon instances where the mental attitude of a crowd has rendered the use of tear gas ineffectual. Often based on arsine, these agents enter and lodge in the lungs, nose, throat, and ...
Malcolm A. Fox, 1999
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American Journal of Science: The First Scientific Journal in ...
Standing as near, or as far off, as one pleases, from a train of cars in rapid motion , no more nauseating effect is produced upon the spectator, than by the sight of any object at rest. Yet the appearance of motion is nauseating in two cases — but  ...
‎1862

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAUSEATING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nauseating is used in the context of the following news items.
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Making love to a cactus: US-Pakistan relations at a …
It is a nauseating image: officials of a government nominally allied to the United States working with terrorists to plan a murderous attack on ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
2
Babyface the dolphin improving after suffering deep propeller cuts in …
"It's nauseating, because somebody hit her." NOAA officials tracked the dolphin during the weekend and decided it was best for the animal to ... «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»
3
How did these terror attacks during the last 20 years change the …
This adage became a nauseating cliché in the days following the attacks. While excusing Islamist terrorism is a continued trend, 'Charlie ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Kool Keith: Total Orgasm
... from the darkest, most extreme and often ridiculous wordplay, Keith's approach can more often than not be as amusing as it is nauseating. «PopMatters, Jul 15»
5
Climate zombies: can Labor bring back a tabloid-proof climate policy?
If it is to succeed, Labor needs to be on the front foot, O'Neil-style, pointing out the nauseating contradictions in the tax rhetoric. How the ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
6
Another voice: Planned Parenthood's apology is gruesome
But the nearly three-hour unedited video -- a nauseating journey through the inner workings of the abortion industry — was posted at the same ... «Springfield News-Leader, Jul 15»
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Sydney's long lost amusement parks
... parents, it would prove “too much fun to have in one day”, especially after the Bounty's Revenge exacted a nauseating toll on its young riders. «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
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Pointe-Claire rolls out 2500 new compost bins
... has invited a new problem into her bins. “It's hot and they get full of maggots so I have to wash them because it's quite nauseating,” said Noel. «Globalnews.ca, Jul 15»
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Helen Hayes and Chuka Umunna abstain on the controversial …
And listening to some of the nauseating speeches tonight, I might have to. See his passionate speech below (or click here for a much better ... «BrixtonBuzz, Jul 15»
10
Scandinavian love story with twist
Had this fallen into the hands of Hollywood, it could have been a nauseating experience, but writer/director Ronnie Sandahl favours nuance ... «Community Newspaper Group, Jul 15»
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