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Meanings of vomit in English
The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
Synonyms
Examples for "sick"
Examples for "sick"
1
The effect of the sudden presence in the sick-room was most marked.
2
By personal contact of the sick with the well, especially in kissing.
3
The sick were healed in answer to his prayer of simple faith.
4
He took particular interest in the sick, crippled and poorly nourished children.
5
Many were sick; more were discontented; and all longed wearily for land.
1
The election result has cast doubt on popular support for that project.
2
Events surrounding CervicalCheck continue to cast a shadow over the health service.
3
Animal prints: we think they're best left to cast members of Eastenders.
4
The withdrawal agreement must give legal effect to that 'cast iron' guarantee.
5
Clive Fugill said Covid-19 cast doubt on whether that legacy could continue.
1
However, the new results show the house cat lineage is far older.
2
The only solution to the problem was to have the cat destroyed.
3
She could tell people a talking cat lived in the government house.
4
Ask Kathy Crawford what he did to her cat three years ago.
5
At home that evening it proved to be a great cat toy.
1
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said refugees would undergo several security checks.
2
For reasons that soon became clear, Ralph took longer to warm up.
3
In 2000, for example, consumer advocate Ralph Nader ran as an independent.
4
Lands Minister Ralph Regenvanu said people need to get their homes rebuilt.
5
I don't know about the good part, but yes, Colonel Ralph Newlin.
1
By the middle of the afternoon the chuck wagon was in sight.
2
Later, he went to the chuck wagon and brought back some supper.
3
I liked the stone pile better than the chuck they gave us.
4
The end of the spindle should be threaded to receive a chuck.
5
Games of lesser importance included 26, faro, keno, the punchboard, and chuck-a-luck.
1
The citizens, however, are not convinced, and continue to hurl anti-Semitic insults.
2
There was no question how far the giants could hurl their boulders.
3
Some young migrants and refugees appeared to hurl rocks at the guards.
4
He determines to reach El Paso, and hurl the Texans on California.
5
Near and far-off, the limitless wings of the tempest hurl and go
1
Ask China, which has long recognised the value of a strategic purge.
2
The government also engaged in a major purge of the state media.
3
It took a long time to purge the water from his body.
4
When the purge ended, the numbers fell far short of those expected.
5
This weapon array is different than the others; designed to purge everything.
1
Allen said the leak would spew unchecked while the system is disconnected.
2
The kind of technicolour spew that would make even Luke Watson blush.
3
The thing is, the more negativity you spew, the worse you look.
4
I am the basest of creatures, I could even spew at myself?
5
The child's face twisted in terror and it began to spew fire.
1
The hum and the honk of a motor-car sounded in the street.
2
He heard the front door close and the honk of the horn.
3
After a minute or so I hear another honk, this one closer.
4
We found out why when we heard a horn honk behind us.
5
The warning honk had not given the Mistress time to turn out.
1
In places the yak trail led between steep banks of unstable rubble.
2
Its fur was long and wispy, like the fur of a yak.
3
Tell him we'd better dispense with the yak and get with it.
4
Even the ropes which sustain the tents are made of yak's wool.
5
You happily eat goat testicles, yak eyeballs, camel intestines and elephant dung.
1
Previously, the ships could disgorge thousands of people onto the beach daily.
2
Now, Rubra observed eleven wormhole termini blink open to disgorge the survivors.
3
William Bunning-Ford will now have to disgorge every stick of his estate.
4
What could it profit them to gather what they must straightway disgorge?
5
They would not have to disgorge the money they accumulated along the way.
1
Every time she looked at Bili's arm now, she wanted to retch.
2
I cough, gasp, gasp more, try to retch, remember how to breathe.
3
Immediately a sickly sweet odor spread out, causing the physician to retch.
4
The stench of vomit, alcohol and urine makes one want to retch.
5
She moved faster than Aislinn, and Seth stood trying not to retch.
1
Each night, well-fed individuals regurgitate packages of congealed blood for hungry roostmates.
2
In time José felt himself bursting; the liquid began to regurgitate.
3
Occasionally these small snakes will even regurgitate a termite after swallowing it whole.
4
About all I did was regurgitate what was in the manual.
5
As they approached this capital, Renaldo's grief seemed to regurgitate with redoubled violence.
1
If one word can perhaps symbolize the development of the Australian vocabulary, it could be chunder.
2
It still stank a bit of chunder, but that was a minor inconvenience compared to being horizontal.
3
As with most Australian slang, the original phrase got shortened over time, and watch out under became chunder -or so the story goes.
4
A few years ago Chunder Sen, the great scholar of India, died.
5
But I recognized Grish Chunder's point of view and sympathized with it.
1
And now and then an unmistakable upchuck bouquet would waft across his nostrils.
2
Ledford was trying not to upchuck his steak and eggs and chocolate cake.
3
Is our fierce vampire slayer gonna upchuck on the victims?
4
Has the in-helmet upchuck ever actually come to pass?
5
Shaky, sweaty and like she might upchuck any second.
1
And, even if there were, it would spue him and all who are like him out of its mouth.
2
To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.
3
Take care that the land spue not you out also as it spued out the nations that were before you.
4
So he threatens,-" Iwillspue thee out of my mouth," as a man's stomach loathes that which is nauseating.
5
Before his distorted vision rose the mocking face of Jim Weston, and a deep growling curse spued from his lips.
1
I'm going to puke up everything because I'm such a pig.
2
The man who could look at a cat and make it puke up hairballs.
3
Cate stayed in her seat, feeling like she might puke up her tuna melt.
4
We know that Wildman could puke up those things.
5
Spencer's gut churned so violently, she was afraid she might puke up the Hawaiian feast.
1
With that said, you bring up a great point, which is oxygen.
2
I'll bring up the rear-in case it gets in position to attack.
3
Which was true, of course, and petty of me to bring up.
4
It's not always an easy thing to bring up or talk about.
5
They should also bring up any family history related to lipid disorders.
1
If you've spent a night " praying to the porcelain god"-diarrhea ,vomiting ,chills ,headache-youcanprobably thank salmonella or norovirus for the experience.
1
Every year the competition contrives to throw up something a little different.
2
He wanted to throw up his hat and shout in sheer joy.
3
A moment later he started and throw up his hands in surprise.
4
I throw up the chamber-window, to breathe the earliest breath of summer.
5
I think it was all fairly…well…it didn't throw up any major challenges.
1
And Bethany... if you feel the need to vomit up there.
2
Only in trying to help the victim vomit up the poison.
3
All the seawater that you drank made you vomit up a lot of those pills.
4
No one had seen him slip behind the trees to vomit up all those precious hamburgers.
5
The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
1
I am sure you must be sick of the sight of me.
2
I'd rather be sick sometimes than afraid of being all the time.
3
He greeted the ladies with courtliness, and inquired mout anybody be sick.
4
He must have known what it would mean to be sick here.
5
I want you to be sick when you think of my name.
1
That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil.
Usage of vomit in English
1
I knew I would vomit soon, didn't know why I hadn't already.
2
For a long while he thought he might vomit or pass out.
3
Some seemed to sing their speech; some almost to vomit it up.
4
That said, the policeman's severed hand almost made me vomit a little.
5
You make me feel as if I might vomit at any moment.
6
They were shaking badly and I felt a strong urge to vomit.
7
You return to your own vomit, if you see what I mean.
8
Lorna started to vomit then, though not as she had that morning.
9
Obviously a Mac doesn't take drugs or choke on anyone else's vomit.
10
The shock of injection was very likely going to make me vomit.
11
She grasped his shoulder for balance and fought the urge to vomit.
12
I coughed and coughed until I thought I was going to vomit.
13
I couldn't tell if I was going to vomit or pass out.
14
She was an anxious child; she would vomit with nerves before school.
15
The stench of opened bodies and vomit ricocheted off grisly slippery stone.
16
For six weeks I had been crawling to the bathroom to vomit.
About this term
Frequent collocations
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Vomit through the time
Vomit across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common