Vomit
['vɒmɪt] or ['vɑmɪt]
Definition
(noun.) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
(noun.) the matter ejected in vomiting.
(verb.) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; 'After drinking too much, the students vomited'; 'He purged continuously'; 'The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night'.
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Definition
(n.) To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
(v. t.) To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.
(v. t.) Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.
(n.) Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
(n.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Puke, spew, eject, throw up, cast up.
v. a. [1]. Disgorge, throw up (from the stomach), puke up, cast up.[2]. Eject, emit, throw forth.
n. Emetic, puke.
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Definition
v.i. to throw up the contents of the stomach by the mouth to spew.—v.t. to throw out with violence.—n. matter ejected from the stomach: something that excites vomiting.—adj. Vom′ic purulent.—n. Vom′ica a cavity in the lung containing pus; Vom′iting act of one who vomits: matter vomited.—adjs. Vom′itive Vom′itory causing to vomit.—n. a vomit or emetic.—ns. Vom′ito the worst form of yellow fever usually attended with the black vomit; Vom′itory a door of a large building by which the crowd is let out; Vomituri′tion violent retching.
Editor: Whitney
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of vomiting, is a sign that you will be afflicted with a malady which will threaten invalidism, or you will be connected with a racy scandal. To see others vomiting, denotes that you will be made aware of the false pretenses of persons who are trying to engage your aid. For a woman to dream that she vomits a chicken, and it hops off, denotes she will be disappointed in some pleasure by the illness of some relative. Unfavorable business and discontent are also predicted. If it is blood you vomit, you will find illness a hurried and unexpected visitor. You will be cast down with gloomy forebodings, and children and domesticity in general will ally to work you discomfort.
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Examples
- Vomit if it will give thee pleasure. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Take care not to vomit. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He is preparing to vomit,' some one said and the lines laughed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It's you who must return, like a dog to his vomit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He arrived in Havana on Tuesday, and on the Friday following he was buried, having died of the black vomit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If something is eaten which causes vomiting, the muscles work the other way and force the matter from the stomach. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Volley after volley they vomited upon the temple guards; volley on volley crashed through the thin air toward the fleeting and illusive fliers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I've vomited into a gas mask. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The inner guards went down beneath howling mobs, and the cages vomited forth their inmates hot with the lust to kill. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was poured from caldrons and ladles, vomited through long copper tubes, or flung in pots, phials and barrels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the drunkard stinks and vomits in his own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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