nausea
[noun]
Synonyms: sickness, biliousness, queasiness, retching, squeamishness, vomiting

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English Thesaurus: stomachache, indigestion, food poisoning, nausea, constipation, ...

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nau‧se‧a /ˈnɔːziə, -siə $ ˈnɒːziə, -ʃə/ noun [uncountable] formal
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: Greek nausia 'seasickness', from nautes; ⇒ nautical]
the feeling that you have when you think you are going to vomit (=bring food up from your stomach through your mouth) Synonym : sickness
feeling/wave of nausea
A feeling of nausea suddenly came over me.
⇒ ad nauseam

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

nausea
noun
ADJ. intense, severe | sudden | nervous
QUANT. wave I was overcome by waves of nausea.
VERB + NAUSEA experience, feel | complain of | bring on, cause | relieve
NAUSEA + VERB engulf sb, overcome sb, sweep over sb
PHRASES a feeling/sensation of nausea

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

nausea

suffer from nausea
Some patients suffer from nausea and headaches.
cause nausea
The medicine can cause nausea and dizziness.
nausea sweeps over/engulfs somebody formal
Nausea swept over him when he tried to stand.
a feeling of nausea
Many women have feelings of nausea in early pregnancy.
a wave of nausea (=a sudden strong feeling of nausea)
A terrible wave of nausea swept over her.
intense/severe nausea
The woman suffered from severe nausea and vomiting.
mild nausea
The tablets can cause mild nausea.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

stomachache pain in your stomach or near your stomach:
He said he had a stomachache and didn't want to go to school.
I've got bad stomachache.
indigestion pain or uncomfortable feelings that you get when your stomach cannot break down food that you have eaten:
She frequently suffered from indigestion.
If I eat onions, they give me indigestion.
food poisoning a stomach illness caused by eating food that contains harmful bacteria, so that you vomit:
I got food poisoning while I was on holiday and had to spend the day in bed.
Two of the customers has to be taken to hospital with suspected food poisoning.
nausea the feeling that you have when you think you are going to vomit:
A feeling of nausea suddenly came over me.
constipation the condition of having difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from your body:
Do you suffer from constipation?
diarrhoea British English, diarrhea American English an illness in which waste from the bowels is watery and comes out often:
The main symptoms are diarrhoea and vomiting.
Some dairy products can cause diarrhoea.

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