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Adjective nauseating has 1 sense
- nauseating, nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile - causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
Antonym: wholesome (indirect, via unwholesome)
Verb nauseate has 2 senses
- sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach - upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the foood turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold ont he food sickened the diners"
--1 is one way to disgust, gross out, revolt, repel
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up - cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
--2 is one way to repel, repulse
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to nauseate Sue
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