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stomach-churning

[ stuhm-uhk-chur-ning ]

adjective

  1. causing nausea.
  2. causing a queasy feeling in one’s stomach, as from anxiety, anger, or disgust:

    The car accident was a stomach-churning sight.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of stomach-churning1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

As far as one could see, there were no eruptions of look-at-me garishness, no flashes of stomach-churning inappropriateness.

And as Raf pushed down another aisle, paralleling his course, he was conscious of a sickly sweet, stomach-churning stench.

He passed a cheap restaurant, and the smell of the synthetics set his stomach churning.

The whole vast stomach-churning panorama spread out beneath him endlessly.

The shuddering, stomach-churning wave tossed him to the floor and a picture dropped to smash against the floor.

Shortly after food begins to enter the stomach churning movements are set up.

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