vomit
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vomit
- /ˈvɒmɪt/ UK
- /ˈvɑmɪt/ US
Rhymes with -ɒmɪt
Where it comes from
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.
verb vomits · vomiting · vomited
- To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke. The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
- To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew. 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.
- To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit. She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.
Similar: barf, be sick, bring up, chunder, hurl, lose one's lunch, puke, shoot the cat, sick, spew, spew up, throw up
noun vomits
- The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus. For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.
- The act of regurgitating.
- The act of vomiting. He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.
- Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash. "[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."
- That which causes vomiting; an emetic. He gives your Hollander a vomit.
Similar: barf, bait, boke, boot, chunder, honk, pavement pizza, puke, purging, ralph, sick, spew, sprog, throwup, throw-up, upchuck, yak, liquid laugh, multicolour yawn, Technicolor yawn, vomit, vomitus
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: regurgitate, regorge, disgorge, retch, puking, puke, upchuck, regurgitation, barf, throw up, emetic, vomitus, vomitive, spew, nauseant, honk
Translations
Every language
verb regurgitate the contents of a stomach
| Español | vomitar, devolver, arrojar, revesar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 게우다 ge'uda, 토하다 tohada |
| 日本語 | 吐く haku, 嘔吐する ōto suru, 戻す modosu |
| 中文 | 嘔吐 /呕吐 ǒutù, 嘔 /呕 ǒu, 吐 tù |
| हिन्दी | उल्टी करना ulṭī karnā, वमन करना vaman karnā, उल्टी ulṭī |
| Kiswahili | -tapika |
| Português | vomitar, regurgitar |
| Français | vomir |
| Deutsch | sich übergeben |
| Italiano | vomitare, rimettere |
| Ελληνικά | εξεμώ exemó, κάνω εμετό káno emetó, ξερνώ xernó |
| Română | vomita, borî, vărsa, voma |
| Русский | блева́ть blevátʹ, рвать rvatʹ, тошни́ть tošnítʹ, рыга́ть rygátʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | nôn, mửa, ói |
| العربية | تَقَيَّأَ taqayyaʔa, قَاءَ qāʔa, اِسْتَفْرَغَ istafraḡa |
| עברית | הֵקִיא hekí |
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