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Nausea

Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

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Disgust 76% connected

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Symptom 76% connected

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Qualm 76% connected

Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Queasiness 76% connected

The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.

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Nauseate 74% connected

To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Nauseate 74% connected

To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Nauseous 74% connected

Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Nauseous 74% connected

Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Noisome 74% connected

Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Noisome 74% connected

Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sicken 74% connected

To make sick; to disease.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sicken 74% connected

To make sick; to disease.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sickness 92% connected

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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