vomit

vom·it

Use vomit in a sentence

This woman may vomit.

noun

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.

verb

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.

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vomit

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

Origin of vomit

Middle English from Classical Latin vomitus, a discharging, vomiting from past participle of vomere, to discharge, vomit from Indo-European base an unverified form wem?- from source Classical Greek emein, to vomit, Old English wamm, stain, disgrace

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

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

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vomit

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

To eject (contents of the stomach) through the mouth.
To eject or discharge in a gush; spew out: The volcano vomited lava and ash.

noun

The act or an instance of ejecting matter from the stomach through the mouth.
Matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
An emetic.

Origin of vomit

Middle English vomiten from Latin vomitāre frequentative of vomere ; see wemə- in Indo-European roots.

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vom′it·er
noun

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Matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth, usually as a result of involuntary muscle contractions.

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present vomits, present participle vomiting, simple past and past participle vomited)

To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke.
To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.

Noun

(uncountable)

The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
The act of regurgitating.

Origin

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitÄre, present active infinitive of vomitÅ (“vomit repeatedly"), frequentative form of vomÅ (“be sick, vomit"), from Proto-Indo-European *wem- (“to spew, vomit"). Cognate with Old Norse vÃ¡ma (“nausea, malaise"), Old English wemman (“to defile"). More at wem.

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vomit - Medical Definition

v.

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.

n.