Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Motion sickness resulting from the pitching and rolling of a ship or boat in water, especially at sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being seasick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Nausea ,dizziness etc caused by the motion of aship ; a form ofmotion sickness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun motion sickness experienced while traveling on water
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Maybe there is a head or two broken; 'tis mostly what we call seasickness, however."
King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884
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Its called seasickness, duck, and it turns you green.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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Its called seasickness, duck, and it turns you green.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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Its called seasickness, duck, and it turns you green.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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Luckily seasickness is never fatal and next day we were all ready for an excursion to Norham Castle, a very ruinous ruin.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917
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Melville called seasickness “that dreadful thing.”
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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Melville called seasickness “that dreadful thing.”
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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The steady rocking motion of a ship also stimulates the semicircular canals, and to those who are not used to this overstimu-lation the result often is seasickness, which is an extremely unpleasant, though not really fatal affliction.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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She was sure her seasickness was the worst that had ever been known, but we all feel that.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home Nell Speed 1895
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She was prostrated by seasickness, which is no respecter of persons, and a more forlorn, unhappy mortal I never expect to see.
Brave and Bold The Fortunes of Robert Rushton Horatio Alger 1865
chained_bear commented on the word seasickness
"There is no use fighting it and no use dosing yourself with medicines or pickles or lemons or fat meat. Nothing can cure it. In spite of everything it will stay with you until it has worked its will to the uttermost, and then it will go away at last of its own accord, leaving you a wan, limp wreck. I may add, to correct a general impression, that it is impossible to become seasoned to seasickness. One attack does not render the victim immune from future recurrences...."
--Walter Noble Burns, A Year with a Whaler, 88
April 28, 2008