nauseate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make someone feel sick or as if they are going to vomit

   The smell of spoiled meat began to nauseate everyone in the room.

2. 2
   verb

   to fill someone with strong disgust or revulsion

   The official's casual cruelty continued to nauseate her.

From earlier nauseat, based on Latin nauseatus, the past participle of nauseare ('to feel seasick; make sick'), from nausea. Latin borrowed that noun from Greek nausia ('seasickness'), related to naus ('ship'). The figurative sense extends physical sickness to moral or emotional disgust.

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