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Turn One's Stomach

Definition: Turn One's Stomach

Turn One's Stomach

Verb

1. Upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the foood turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold ont he food sickened the diners".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Turn One's Stomach

Synonyms: nauseate (v), sicken (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Turn One's Stomach

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dislike

Cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold; (give pain); pall.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Turn One's Stomach

Language Translations for "turn one's stomach"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏أثار إشمئزاز. (various references)

   

French

  

éc"urer. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לעורר בחיל" (horrify). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felfordul a gyomra (to feel queasy, to nauseate, to sicken). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urntay one'say omachstay

   

Spanish

  

revolverse a uno el estómago. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

midesini bulandırmak (make one's gorge rise, make one's stomach rise, make sick), mide bulandırmak (make sick, nauseate, sicken). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

викликати нудоту у когось. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Turn One's Stomach

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-c-e-h-m-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-u"

-4 letters: countershots, noncustomers, southernmost.

-5 letters: countershot, monstrances, noncustomer, scoutmaster, touchstones, tournaments.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams 		5. Bibliography


  

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