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vomit

verb

ˈvä-mət How to pronounce vomit (audio)
Definition of vomitnext
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 At one point the Spaniard could be seen vomiting into a towel. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026 On a muggy Saturday afternoon in mid-August, tennis player Novak Djokovic appeared to vomit into a towel and called for a doctor to check his blood pressure before unexpectedly losing a second-round match in Cincinnati. — Aaron Short, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026 The people who genuinely benefit are those vomiting or experiencing diarrhoea badly enough to be dehydrated. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026 On the night of the reprieve, Owen, cut loose for the evening by his girlfriend, who wants to canoodle with a neighbor, vomits in the vicinity of Allie’s high heels, in what might be called a meet-boot. — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for vomit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomit
  1. hurl
  2. puke
  3. heave
  4. gag
  5. barf
  6. retch
Verb
  • But the ritual has increasingly gotten out of hand, culminating with someone hurling a chair into the crowd during the group’s performance last week in Charlotte, North Carolina, and reportedly sending one fan to the hospital.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Against one-on-one coverage, Tyquan Thornton broke open on a deep out-breaking route, and with pressure in his face, Patrick Mahomes hurled a pass that Thornton caught for a 30-yard gain and a fresh set of downs.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of hurl
Verb
  • Earlier this year, Tampa Bay right-hander Jonathan Heasley puked on the mound in his lone appearance of the 2026 campaign.
    — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • And after you're done looking, try not to run to your toilet and puke.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of puke
Verb
  • After a Golden Flashes timeout, Sayin rolled right and heaved it toward the end zone, when Brandon Inniss caught it in the middle of a crowd of Kent State defensive backs to make it 35-0.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The ice groaned and heaved, fracturing as if the river itself had come back to life.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of heave
Verb
  • Harry is essentially gagging to hit back at Charles with some kind of ‘revenge’ statement.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Buffet chains tend to elicit eye rolls (if not gagging sounds) from foodies.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of gag
Verb
  • Then Holland got up to snap a photo with Bernthal and Evans and barfed on the floor.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026
Definition of barf
Verb
  • 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.
    — Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Even the sound of the breaking chips made June retch.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
Definition of retch

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“Vomit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vomit. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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