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# nauseating

«nauseating» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making you feel sick, as if you might vomit** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (nauseating; more nauseating); verb form (present participle of nauseate: nauseate, nauseates, nauseated, nauseating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Making you feel sick, as if you might vomit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#m1)

2) (informal) Very annoying or unpleasant, as in "nauseating showing-off". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used about smells, sights, motion (a nauseating boat trip) and in health; in everyday talk and stories it is used for something so unpleasant it makes you feel sick, even if not really. Phrases: "a nauseating smell".

### examples

- The smell from the bin was nauseating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x1)
- The rollercoaster was so fast it was nauseating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x2)
- Reading in the car can be nauseating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x3)
- His bragging was nauseating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x4)
- The rotten eggs gave off a nauseating stink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x5)
- Some medicines have nauseating side effects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x6)
- The boat rocked in a nauseating way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x7)

### note

From "nausea" (feeling sick). Spelling: nau-se-at-ing. "Nauseous" means feeling sick ("I feel nauseous") in everyday use.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nauseating» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.