nauseate
verb (used with object)
had nauseated
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past perfectof nauseate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The house smelled fruity and she remembered how the peach had nauseated her the last time she was there.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Perhaps the bad smell in the building had nauseated him, because the monkey rooms weren’t being cleaned as regularly as usual.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Richard remembered how dejected it had looked when Kainene bought it—half-finished with layers of green mold on the unpainted walls—how the flies and bees clustered over the fallen cashews had nauseated him.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The rest had nauseated him, and what he did eat he had left at Circe’s door.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
In the imminent expectancy of death, the very thought of eating had nauseated him the moment before.
From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham
