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for nauseating
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Nauseate \Nau"se*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nauseated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Nauseating.] [L. nauseare, nauseatum, fr. nausea.
See Nausea.]
To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with
disgust.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
nauseating
adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn:
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy,
loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "nauseating":
abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt,
beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crappy, crude,
despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fecal, feculent,
fetid, filthy, flyblown, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gloppy, gross,
gunky, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, loathsome, maggoty,
malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mucky, nasty,
nauseant, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious,
obscene, odious, offensive, ordurous, overripe, poisonous, puky,
putrid, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive,
revolting, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening,
slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, spoiled, sposhy,
stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, wormy, yecchy, yucky
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