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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

nauséonder

Native Script:donner la nausée

Pronunciation / Transliteration: noséye

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Nauseate/ˈnɔː.zi.eɪt/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Cette odeur peut nauséer les passants."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To cause someone to feel unclean, sick, or inclined to vomit.

    "The overwhelming smell of spoiled meat began to nauseate everyone in the room."
  2. 2

    To cause a feeling of intense disgust, loathing, or repulsion.

    "His arrogant and dishonest behavior served only to nauseate his colleagues."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'nauseare' (to feel seasick), which stems from the ancient Greek 'naus' meaning ship. It entered the English language in the early 17th century, initially retaining the primary sense of causing seasickness or physical revulsion before broadening to describe general disgust.

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