vomit
Plural: vomits
Noun
- the matter ejected in vomiting
- a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
- the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
- The act of regurgitating.
- The act of vomiting.
- Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
- That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
Verb
Verb Forms: vomited, vomiting, vomits
- To eject stomach contents through the mouth.
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- "After drinking too much, the students vomited"
- To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
- To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
- To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
Examples
- Sometimes, the letters on the rack seem to vomit forth, creating a jumble of unplayable tiles.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, disgorgement, emesis, emetic, honk, nauseant, puke, puking, purge, regorge, regurgitate, regurgitation, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit up, vomiting, vomitive, vomitus, Technicolor yawn, bait, boke, boot, bring up, chunder, hurl, liquid laugh, lose one's lunch, multicolour yawn, pavement pizza, purging, ralph, shoot the cat, spew up, sprog, vomit, yak
Antonyms
keep down
Scrabble Score: 10
vomit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordvomit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vomit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary