carsick
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of carsick
Explanation
If you get carsick, you feel nauseated when you're in a moving vehicle. Kids who get carsick often feel worse when they try to read in a car. If you get sick to your stomach whenever you ride in a car, you can say you tend to get carsick. This is just one of many kinds of motion sickness — some people feel ill when they're traveling by airplane, on a train, or on a boat. The word seasick came first, in the 16th century, and carsick was modeled after it, appearing around 1908.
Example Sentences
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Her gray cloth backseat was covered with dog hair and a few remaining telltale stains of the regurgitated chocolate milk of a carsick toddler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Drinks remembers his sense of disbelief and being a little carsick as they drove the four hours back to Philadelphia, where he would move in with his brother Damon.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
About a week later he felt nauseated and carsick.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2022
Most people who’ve driven the 1 mention wanting to throw up and the breathtaking beauty and danger in the same sentence, being carsick and awe-struck and scared.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2018
He had gotten used to reading in the truck without getting as carsick.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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