vomit

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/ˈvɒmɪt/

noun 5verb 3

Collocations

(verb.)

ADV

violently

promptly

After eating the spoiled seafood, she promptly vomited into the bathroom sink.

After eating the spoiled seafood, she vomited up her entire dinner.

VERB + VOMIT

want to

After eating that expired yogurt, I really wanted to vomit.

make sb

The smell of the fish market was so strong it made him vomit.

PHRASES

nausea and vomiting

After eating the spoiled seafood, she suffered from nausea and vomiting all night.

vomiting and diarrhoea

Definitions

verb

To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.

The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.

It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.

To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.

She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.

Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.

noun

The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.

For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.

The act of regurgitating.

The act of vomiting.

He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.

Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.

"[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."

That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

He gives your Hollander a vomit.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach throu

vomiting
emesis
regurgitation
disgorgement
puking

noun — a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting

emetic
vomitive
nauseant

noun — the matter ejected in vomiting

vomitus
puke
barf

verb — eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly

Foolish people repeatedly do foolish things.

unicorn vomit

Something extremely colorful, sweet, or cloying.

I envy how obviously homemade it is, and how the 12 pounds of sprinkles dumped on top of it make it look like a tray of unicorn vomit.

Example Bank

The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

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She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.

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For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.

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He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.

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"[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, vomit is marked as informal, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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