vomit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.
Inflected forms:
form: vomits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vomiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vomited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vomited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vomits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
gloss: To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
pos: verb
examples: She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.
Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
[…]a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery, spread noiseless over the fields, the road, the common, and rolled, he said, blue and dim to his very feet.
There was a chest of drawers with an escrutoire top, for Uriah to read or write at of an evening; there was Uriah’s blue bag lying down and vomiting papers; there was a company of Uriah’s books, commanded by Mr. Tidd; there was a corner cupboard; and there were the usual articles of furniture.
"Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke. It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.
After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
gloss: The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.
gloss: The act of regurgitating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of vomiting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: "[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."
gloss: That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
usually
examples: He gives your Hollander a vomit.
Synonyms: barf
be sick
bring up
chunder
hurl
lose one's lunch
puke
shoot the cat
sick
spew
spew up
throw up
bait
boke
boot
honk
pavement pizza
purging
ralph
sprog
throwup
throw-up
upchuck
yak
liquid laugh
multicolour yawn
Technicolor yawn
vomit
vomitus
Related words: emetic
heave
retch
emesis
hurl
launch lunch
launch one's lunch
lose one's lunch
throw up
regurgitate
nauseated
Derived words: dry vomit
word vomit
I need to vomit
projectile vomit
vomitable
vomit blood
vomiting nut
vomitoxin
vomit up
all retch and no vomit
black vomit
block vomit
dog vomit slime mold
sea vomit
unicorn vomit
vom
vomit comet
vomit fraud
vomit green
vomit nut
vomitous
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