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# seasickness

«seasickness» in Mova's school dictionary: **the sick, dizzy feeling some people get when a boat moves…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (seasickness; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Seasickness is the sick, dizzy feeling some people get when a boat moves on the water. It can make you vomit, feel tired and look pale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasickness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Science: a kind of motion sickness caused by your eyes and your balance organs (in the inner ear) disagreeing about how you are moving. Everyday life: people take tablets, wristbands or ginger to help. In history and stories, sailors and explorers often suffered from seasickness on long voyages.

### examples

- Seasickness ruined the first day of our boat trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasickness/#x1)
- Ginger biscuits may help with seasickness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasickness/#x2)
- Many sailors get over seasickness after a few days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasickness/#x3)
- The doctor gave Mum a patch for seasickness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasickness/#x4)
- Seasickness is a kind of motion sickness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasickness/#x5)
- Fresh air on deck eased his seasickness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasickness/#x6)
- Lord Nelson, a famous admiral, is said to have suffered from seasickness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seasickness/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: say «seasickness», not «a seasickness» or «seasicknesses». Adjective: seasick. Spelling: sea + sick + ness, one word, no hyphen.

### In the corpora

- [Big waves are scary, but boats are built to handle rough ("choppy") water; seasickness makes fear feel worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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