nausea
a feeling of sickness with an inclination to vomit
Word origin: From Greek nausia, seasickness, from naus, ship.
Nausea in a sentence
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The rough seas brought on a wave of nausea that left the passengers miserable.
The first-person account of the shipwreck evokes the passengers' rising nausea as the deck pitched in the swell.
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The treaty was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy, yet historians now regard its terms as blank, since they merely postponed the conflicts they claimed to resolve.
Using “nausea” well
Nausea is the queasy sensation of being about to vomit, and figuratively it expresses strong revulsion or disgust. The figurative sense, as in moral nausea, intensifies a feeling of repugnance.
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