What's the difference between nauseous and sickening?

Nauseous


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Iget nauseous every time I hear the name Ralph Nader.
  • (2) Thirteen patients had to discontinue the treatment: 6 in the placebo group (inefficacy: 3 cases, anemia: 1 case, epigastric pain: 1 case, rash: 1 case) and 7 cases in the SI group (inefficacy: 2 cases, nauseous: 3 cases, abdominal pain: 1 case, moderate elevation of transaminases: 1 case).
  • (3) 1 woman stayed in the hospital overnight since she was nauseous and dizzy.
  • (4) Heidi was nauseous, slept all day and started craving citrus fruits and salty things.
  • (5) Thousands of British children exposed to illegal levels of air pollution Read more Even with a mask, 20 minutes outside could leave you feeling nauseous.
  • (6) 7 women still felt nauseous 3 days after leaving the hospital.
  • (7) But when Ensler began passing blood five years ago, and her stomach distended, and she suffered terrible indigestion, and felt nauseous, she decided not to pay attention.
  • (8) For these purposes, Senator Coleman served symbolically to represent all the evil in the world - the entire Republican party, the conscience of George Bush, the US government and the British government, too: no wonder his weak smile looked so nauseous.
  • (9) She feels "excited and nauseous" about the nomination, she says, and is finding the experience weirdly exposing.
  • (10) The initial lack of the protective nauseous and vomiting reflex and high tolerance, relative preservation of the quantitative control, no amnesia during drunkenness, temporal break between the formation of compulsive addiction and the abstinent syndrome, manifestation of compulsive addiction only in a state of alcoholic intoxication were recorded.
  • (11) She was still too nauseous to take the pills while she was in Mexico City, so she would have to take them in the United States.
  • (12) Twenty-seven per cent of patients anaesthetized with propanidid or etomidate were nauseous or vomited immediately postoperatively.
  • (13) In addition, the incidences of nausea and vomiting were significantly higher in the postoperative ward and at home with papaveretum, although no patient who had been given the drug was nauseous or vomited in the recovery area.
  • (14) The idea of breastfeeding, like a sow suckling a piglet, made me nauseous.
  • (15) And if you feel a bit nauseous by the end, or already, I can only apologise.
  • (16) He had these terrible symptoms, because he no longer had a stomach, he was always very nauseous and he had a feeding tube and just wasn't very well.
  • (17) During the observation period (mean time of 2.6 hours), 59 women reported pain, 55 were nauseous, and 26 vomited at least once.
  • (18) We found a significative reduction (P less than 0.001) in the incidence of vomiting and nauseousness duration when the antiemetic prophylaxis was used.
  • (19) But that doesn't mean we won't roll our eyes and feel severely nauseous reading credulous accounts like this, in today's New York Times, of how poor, burdened Bill Clinton felt so sad about signing that law and could barely even sleep, so... so troubled was his conscience: He had just flown across the country after an exhausting campaign day in Oregon and South Dakota, landing at the White House after dark.
  • (20) James Comey feels nauseous about the Clinton emails?

Sickening


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sicken
  • (a.) Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (2) The US media reported Holder was sickened by what he read in Helgerson's report.
  • (3) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
  • (4) But research showing that they sicken or kill bees and other pollinators means neonics could soon lose their grip in North America.
  • (5) London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said there would be more police on the streets of the capital on Tuesday after the “barbaric and sickening attack”.
  • (6) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
  • (7) The judge began sentencing for the "sickening and pitiless" attack by saying that Adebolajo and Adebowale were converts to Islam who became radicalised and extremists.
  • (8) The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence.
  • (9) He already knows that he will be without Troy Deeney, who was sent off for two bookings, while Manuel Almunia injured his left hamstring in the warm-up and had to be replaced by Jonathan Bond, who was taken to hospital after suffering a sickening injury in the first half.
  • (10) "Holocaust deniers are as sickening as they are ignorant.
  • (11) "It's really sickening how much those few chart positions matter," Sharland says.
  • (12) Five (71%) of seven dogs vaccinated with the N protein sickened, with incubation periods 3 to 7 days shorter than that of the control dogs; however, three (60%) of the five rabid dogs recovered without supportive treatment.
  • (13) But they sickened within days and died, and fell apart into scrap and rubble.
  • (14) In a 109-page dossier of complaints by dozens of BBC staff, one manager is accused of targeting a colleague over his sexuality and telling him: "Your lifestyle sickens me but it's your choice."
  • (15) But having largely restricted Austria in terms of second-half chances, their inability to keep possession at the very last had sickening consequences.
  • (16) But as Monsieur de Molière (né plain old Pocquelin and not so indifferent himself to some personal rebranding) makes his way, in 2009, out of the Eurostar terminal and heads off down Judd Street, he has a sickening thought: what if his play has become irrelevant?
  • (17) It’s a sickening feeling, you come off the pitch and the worst thing is you have to go over to the fans who have travelled down; it’s not nice but every single player held their hand up in there, every single one.
  • (18) On Wednesday, Obama repeatedly called Isis “terrorists.” The Committee to Protect Journalists said the murder of Foley, 40, who went missing during a reporting trip to Syria in 2012, “sickens all decent people”.
  • (19) McIlveen wrote: “Utterly sickened that a Christian-owned business has been hauled over the coals for refusing to promote something that is not legal in Northern Ireland.” Meanwhile, the hardline Traditional Unionist Voice leader, Jim Allister, said it was “a dark day for justice and religious freedom in Northern Ireland”.
  • (20) The Murdoch family were said to be "ashamed and sickened..." by Ailes' "horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corp, its founder and every other global media business aspires to".