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nauseous vs nauseated

nauseous

Definitions

adjective

  1. causing or able to cause nausea
  2. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

Examples

There's nothing that says exhausted, cranky and nauseous like vixen, is there?

To him however that feels the same disgust and loathing, the same unutterable shuddering, as I feel, start up within him and shoot through his whole frame at the sight of them, these miscreate deformities, such as toads, beetles, or that most nauseous of all Nature's abortions, the bat, are not indifferent or insignificant: their very existence is a state of direct enmity and warfare against his.

I left feeling sick, nauseous and shaking.

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nauseated

Definitions

adjective

  1. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

Examples

That causes their gaze to slide along with the movement of their heads, leaving them confused and nauseated.

I watched a man in tight leather shorts slapping his backside to the cheering crowds and felt nauseated by the sleaziness of it all.

The smell of frying nauseated her.

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