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nausea

[naw-zee-uh, -zhuh, -see-uh, -shuh] / ˈnɔ zi ə, -ʒə, -si ə, -ʃə /


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Some victims suffer headaches, nausea, fever, diarrhea, vomiting or abdominal cramps so sharp that a friend calls them “knives in the stomach.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Forty minutes into a journey and she's feeling "overwhelmed" by nausea - and can't stop herself throwing up on the ground next to his car.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Photorealistic renderings of shrimp that resemble life preservers and chicken parts with the texture of dinosaur skin have elicited disgust and nausea, with an undercurrent of existential, eldritch horror.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Gastrointestinal problems were the most common, consistent with the nausea and other digestive issues already associated with these medications.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

He fought the nausea down, controlled it, turned Derek over and held his breath and used grass to clean him.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

Hanna said: "She often produces flu-like symptoms with a runny nose and cough and often when the phlegm releases itself in a cough she feels nauseas and vomits."

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

Persis was learning wherein wealth, as well as poverty, has its poverties, its nauseas, its petty annoyances, its daily denials, its hair-cloth shirts.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

For some days past she had been subject to violent nauseas and acute pains, and as she bade him goodbye out of the railway-carriage window, she had to bend and press herself against it.

From A Mummer's Wife by George (George Augustus) Moore

They were also the incarnated nauseas and despairs of Basine.

From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht


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