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Vomit is throw-up, or stomach contents that have been ejected through the mouth.

(noun)

When you get food poisoning from bad beans and you throw up the remainder of the beans in your stomach, the stuff from your stomach that is ejected through your mouth is an example of vomit.

To vomit is to eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.

(verb)

When you eat bad food and get food poisoning and the contents of your stomach come up through your mouth and are ejected, this is an example of a time when you vomit.

See vomit in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the act or process of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth
matter ejected in this way
Archaic emetic

Origin: ME < L vomitus, a discharging, vomiting < pp. of vomere, to discharge, vomit < IE base *wemē- > Gr emein, to vomit, OE wamm, stain, disgrace

intransitive verb

to eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; throw up
to be thrown up or out with force or violence; rush out

transitive verb

to throw up (food)
to discharge or throw out with force or in copious quantities; belch forth

Related Forms:

vomiter noun

See vomit in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb vom·it·ed, vom·it·ing, vom·its

verb, intransitive

To eject part or all of the contents of the stomach through the mouth, usually in a series of involuntary spasmic movements.
To be discharged forcefully and abundantly; spew or gush: The dike burst, and the floodwaters vomited forth.

verb, transitive