nau´se|a´tion

nau|se|ate «N shee ayt, -see-», verb, -at|ed, -at|ing.

–v.t.

1. to cause nausea in; make sick.

2. to reject (food) with loathing or a feeling of nausea: »

Many dishes are commended in one age that are nauseated in another (Sir Thomas Browne).

3. Figurative. to cause to feel loathing.

–v.i.

to feel nausea; become sick: »

the old-fashioned civility that presses food upon you until you nauseate (Scott).

╂[< Latin nauseāre (with English -ate¹) be seasick < nausea nausea]

–nau´se|at´ing|ly, adverb.

–nau´se|a´tion, noun.