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Adjective: nauseating  'no-zee`ey-ting
  1. Causing or able to cause nausea
    "a nauseating smell"
    - nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile, loathful [archaic]
Verb: nauseate  'no-zee`eyt
  1. Upset and make nauseated
    "The mould on the food nauseated the diners"
    - sicken, turn one's stomach
     
  2. Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
    "The pornographic pictures nauseated us"
    - disgust, revolt, sicken, churn up

See also: nausea, nauseant, nauseatingness, unwholesome

Type of: disgust, gross out, repel, repulse, revolt