Adjective nauseating has 1 sense
  1. nauseating, nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile - causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
    Antonym: wholesome (indirect, via unwholesome)
,Verb nauseate has 2 senses
  1. sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach - upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the foood turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold ont he food sickened the diners"
    --1 is one way to disgust, gross out, revolt, repel
    Derived forms: noun nausea1, noun nausea2, noun nauseant1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
  2. disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up - cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
    --2 is one way to repel, repulse
    Derived form: noun nausea2
    Sample sentence:
    The performance is likely to nauseate Sue
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