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
Then, one day in early December of the same year, Walker, who was in high school at the time, remembers lying in bed after being awake all night, vomiting and dealing with diarrhea.
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Jordan Greene, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
All that puking was spot-on In The White Lotus, Lochlan vomited into the pool and then collapsed—seemingly dead.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Rattling off his biography to Jessie, who has agreed to go out with him, Killian gives a mannered, halting speech, the words vomited rather than spoken.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
In the weeks following her bite, the woman experienced stomach pain, diarrhea, and vomiting after eating various kinds of red meat.3
Testing revealed the woman had abnormally high levels of IgE.
—Julia Ries, Health, 4 Apr. 2025
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Jordan Greene, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
All that puking was spot-on In The White Lotus, Lochlan vomited into the pool and then collapsed—seemingly dead.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Rattling off his biography to Jessie, who has agreed to go out with him, Killian gives a mannered, halting speech, the words vomited rather than spoken.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
In the weeks following her bite, the woman experienced stomach pain, diarrhea, and vomiting after eating various kinds of red meat.3
Testing revealed the woman had abnormally high levels of IgE.
—Julia Ries, Health, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomit
Verb
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The massive Ford Raptor truck then reverses away from the lot, hurling Sloan to the ground.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
21 Apr. 2025
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Then, as Ventura was motionless on the floor, Combs appears to kick her and later hurls an object from a table at her.—
Liam Quinn,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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But there the then-junior was at 5 a.m. on the morning of Hopkins’ title tilt against Stillwater, puking.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
3 Apr. 2025
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Diarrhea out of your butt and puke out of your mouth.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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After a lot of loose-ball chaos, Hardaway got the ball in the corner and pump-faked before heaving it up.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
27 Apr. 2025
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But as players had to heave sandbags, move through an obstacle course, toss balls and complete a puzzle, the Vula tribe (with no original Vula members on it) were once again the last team to finish.—
Emily DeLetter,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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Fresh off All-Stars 9, this pint-size diva from season 14 is back to gag the judges with her electrifying performances and remind the world that she was born to do drag.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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She’s tied up and gagged in the secret compartment of a truck in the middle of nowhere, and Bad Things have happened to her.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
17 Apr. 2025
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Even when we were lost and confused, pelted by deadly rain, stomped by dragons, and barfed on by evil worms, Elden Ring Nightreign was thrilling.—
Josh Broadwell,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2025
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When Uecker gripes about baseball legends like Mickey Mantle lowering society’s collective standards by doing TV ads for jock itch ointment, Brooks mimes barfing into his coffee cup, but Uecker keeps going, unfazed by one of the funniest men on earth.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
19 Jan. 2025
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The beat retched like Tin Man choking on his own silvery puke while Fraxiom called out NYU kids and threatened to pee on Zedd.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2025
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By a weird coincidence, the young woman loudly retching in the next bed had, too.—
Joseph Epstein,
Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2024
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“Vomit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vomit. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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