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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 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 Videos shared on social media show Djokovic falling to his knees and appearing to vomit into a towel. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026 Allegedly, so many cinema-goers vomited and fainted during the initial screenings of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) that theatre staff had to hand out smelling salts. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026 After a 30-minute break during which all four pledges vomited, participants began a second round with another bottle of vodka. — Perry Vandell, USA Today, 12 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
  • Similarly, in May of last year, Angel Reese claimed that Fever fans hurled racist comments her way during a game.
    — Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Dust and rocky soil were hurled away at a higher angle than expected, according to Mark Robinson, chief scientist for the LRO’s cameras who works at Intuitive Machines.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 18 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
  • One snap later, Allen heaved an end-zone strike to Moore, who almost caught the ball despite cornerback Kamari Lassiter’s interference.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • With nine seconds to play, Underwood dropped back to pass, scrambled and heaved a last-ditch pass that sailed out of bounds.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of heave
Verb
  • Buffet chains tend to elicit eye rolls (if not gagging sounds) from foodies.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The body of a YouTuber, El Pinky, was found showing signs that he had been gagged and bound.
    — Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 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 22 Sep. 2026.

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