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
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
Wait, then why did Doorman vomit?
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Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
3 June 2026
Own the fact that this song is epically corny and sounds like ChatGPT vomited into a microphone.
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Amber Harding Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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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.
—
Niranjana Rajalakshmi,
Popular Science,
4 June 2026
Wait, then why did Doorman vomit?
—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
3 June 2026
Own the fact that this song is epically corny and sounds like ChatGPT vomited into a microphone.
—
Amber Harding Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomit
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Whether your 9-to-5 job involves a rare combination of manual record keeping and precarious wilderness travel, or your idea of outdoor recreation includes journaling your day while remaining at the ready for whatever nature hurls at you, the all-new Pen-metheus equips you for it all.
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At its core, the hearing involved two former business partners hurling major accusations against one another.
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There’s strong waves of desire to puke.
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In other words, the Canadiens did not puke all over themselves.
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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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Niemann hit two drives off the property, chopped his way up the fairway and finally lost it by heaving his club.
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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 29 Jun. 2026.
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