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noun
The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
The act of regurgitating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
The act of vomiting.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, uncountable, usually
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noun
That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, usually
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verb
To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
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noun
the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing out, reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
Narrower terms: rumination, hematemesis, haematemesis, hyperemesis
noun
a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: emetic, vomitive, nauseant
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Broader terms: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
Narrower terms: ipecac, powdered mustard, dry mustard
noun
the matter ejected in vomiting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: vomitus, puke, barf
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Broader terms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product
verb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up
Antonyms: keep down
Broader terms: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
History
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.
Across languages
383 source translations are retained for this English entry.
