Vomit definition
To vomit is to eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
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.
verb
To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
verb
The act of regurgitating.
noun
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Matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
noun
To eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; throw up.
verb
Vomit is throw-up, or stomach contents that have been ejected through the mouth.
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.
noun
To eject part or all of the contents of the stomach through the mouth, usually in a series of involuntary spasmic movements.
verb
To be discharged forcefully and abundantly; spew or gush.
The dike burst, and the floodwaters vomited forth.
verb
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To eject (contents of the stomach) through the mouth.
verb
To eject or discharge in a gush; spew out.
The volcano vomited lava and ash.
verb
The act or an instance of ejecting matter from the stomach through the mouth.
noun
An emetic.
noun
The act or process of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
noun
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Matter ejected in this way.
noun
To be thrown up or out with force or violence; rush out.
verb
To throw up (food)
verb
To discharge or throw out with force or in copious quantities; belch forth.
verb
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To eject part or all of the contents of the stomach through the mouth, usually in a series of involuntary spasmic movements.
verb
To be discharged forcefully and abundantly; spew or gush.
The dike burst, and the floodwaters vomited forth.
verb
The act or an instance of ejecting matter from the stomach through the mouth.
noun
Matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
noun
An emetic.
noun
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Matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth, usually as a result of involuntary muscle contractions.
Origin of vomit
- Middle English vomiten from Latin vomitāre frequentative of vomere wemə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre, present active infinitive of vomitō (“vomit repeatedly"), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit"), from Proto-Indo-European *wem- (“to spew, vomit"). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise"), Old English wemman (“to defile"). More at wem.
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