as in to hurl
to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth
the children with the flu vomited every time they tried to eat something
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Recent Examples of vomit
But Zealand touted that fewer people taking the drug vomited than those in the placebo group.
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Angelica Peebles,
CNBC,
13 June 2026
Coach Heather Ryan approached Johnson, who vomited for a second time in the heat, and implored her to sit for an inning.
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Bobby Narang,
Chicago Tribune,
7 June 2026
Geoff Howarth, a former New Zealand captain unused to such lavish fare, once vomited on the field shortly after a particularly leaden lunch.
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Nick Miller,
New York Times,
6 June 2026
The same 2008 study found that only about 9 percent of dogs seemed sick before grazing, and only around 22 percent regularly vomited after.
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Niranjana Rajalakshmi,
Popular Science,
4 June 2026
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Angelica Peebles,
CNBC,
13 June 2026
Coach Heather Ryan approached Johnson, who vomited for a second time in the heat, and implored her to sit for an inning.
—
Bobby Narang,
Chicago Tribune,
7 June 2026
Geoff Howarth, a former New Zealand captain unused to such lavish fare, once vomited on the field shortly after a particularly leaden lunch.
—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
6 June 2026
The same 2008 study found that only about 9 percent of dogs seemed sick before grazing, and only around 22 percent regularly vomited after.
—
Niranjana Rajalakshmi,
Popular Science,
4 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomit
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English soccer fans have earned a reputation for violent hooliganism, hurling plastic chairs and brawling their way across the piazzas and boulevards of Europe.
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Things hit a boiling point when Contreras leaped into the air and hurled his batting helmet directly at Cavalli.
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No one wants to be the guy puking in the boat in Saving Private Ryan.
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There’s strong waves of desire to puke.
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Serena looked down, heaved a sigh and hooked her knee around the pole before mustering up a halfhearted spin.
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In another video, an emergency worker heaves a large stone aside while working to free people from the wreckage.
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Azim was then beaten, strangled, suffocated with a pillow, gagged, and stuffed in a closet.
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There are 100 categories (seriously), the vast majority of them ridiculous bits, and even the semi-serious ones basically gags, too.
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The young stars of these videos might be opening Amazon packages, sitting in a dentist’s chair, lip-synching to Morgan Wallen in an all-white kitchen beneath a giant box-pendant light fixture, or barfing.
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New Royals outfielder Isaac Collins barfed while riding on a roller coaster.
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The Captain’s Dinner scene in the 2022 film Triangle of Sadness, with its opera of vomit, is satire in a long-standing tradition, going back to the retching sequence on the boat in Céline’s Mort à crédit, and before that to Rabelais.
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Even the sound of the breaking chips made June retch.
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“Vomit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vomit. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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