Vomit

/ˈvɒmɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
2. (transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
3. To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
4. The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
5. The act of regurgitating.
6. The act of vomiting.
7. (informal) Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
8. (obsolete, countable) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

Example Sentences

The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.

She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.

Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.

[…]a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery, spread noiseless over the fields, the road, the common, and rolled, he said, blue and dim to his very feet.

There was a chest of drawers with an escrutoire top, for Uriah to read or write at of an evening; there was Uriah’s blue bag lying down and vomiting papers; there was a company of Uriah’s books, commanded by Mr. Tidd; there was a corner cupboard; and there were the usual articles of furniture.

"Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke. It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.

After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.

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Word Forms

• vomits
• vomiting
• vomited

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