A.Word.A.Day |
About | Media | Search | Contact |
Home
|
Mar 5, 2025
This week’s themeWords having nautical origins This week’s words bilge nauseate keel ![]() ![]()
Miracle of Marco Spagnolo (detail)
Art: Giorgio Bonola (1657-1700)
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargnauseate
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
verb tr., intr. 1. To experience or induce nausea (stomach distress with an urge to vomit). 2. To feel or evoke disgust. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin nauseare (to be seasick), from Greek nausea, from naus (ship).
Earliest documented use: 1625.
USAGE:
“It nauseates me to think of how much of our lives are spent in front
of screens.” Francine Kopun; How I Spent Two Days Without TV; Toronto Star (Canada); Apr 14, 2010. See more usage examples of nauseate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or
of races, but the happiness of the common man. -William Beveridge,
economist and reformer (5 Mar 1879-1963)
|
|
© 1994-2025 Wordsmith