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 Mayes got Onaje out of bed and into the bathroom, where Onaje vomited and went limp. — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 23 June 2026 The pulses are designed to normalize the nerve messaging from the brain to the stomach to relieve symptoms of nausea and vomiting without side effects. — ABC News, 22 June 2026 But Zealand touted that fewer people taking the drug vomited than those in the placebo group. — 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 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
  • Truelove, who has a criminal history as well as mental health issues, instead approached Melvin and hurled a racial slur at the co-host before he was detained.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026
  • Zeus and Poseidon are at it again—one hurling thunderbolts, the other whipping the sea into a frenzy.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Definition of hurl
Verb
  • No one wants to be the guy puking in the boat in Saving Private Ryan.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • There’s strong waves of desire to puke.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of puke
Verb
  • At one point, Nelson appears to snatch the other driver’s sunglasses from his forehead and heave them across the parking lot.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Serena looked down, heaved a sigh and hooked her knee around the pole before mustering up a halfhearted spin.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
Definition of heave
Verb
  • Azim was then beaten, strangled, suffocated with a pillow, gagged, and stuffed in a closet.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
  • There are 100 categories (seriously), the vast majority of them ridiculous bits, and even the semi-serious ones basically gags, too.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
Definition of gag
Verb
  • 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
  • New Royals outfielder Isaac Collins barfed while riding on a roller coaster.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 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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