spit up

as in to vomit
to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth the baby finished nursing and promptly spit up

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Recent Examples of spit up McVay said Higbee was taken to the hospital after spitting up blood. Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025 Sometimes, coughing can result in spitting up small tonsil stones that appear white. Sarah Hudgens, Health, 5 Oct. 2024 The vent system in the bottle redirects air that could otherwise cause painful gas, burping, and spitting up. Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 19 Feb. 2024 Burping olms sometimes spat up parts of earthworm species that aren’t found underground, suggesting that the olms hunt during their forays topside. Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for spit up
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  • The students fell ill within minutes of eating rice and potato curry, vomiting and convulsing with stomach cramps.
    Peter Guo, NBC news, 2 May 2025
  • The weapons cause respiratory seizures, vomiting, burning sensations and other debilitating symptoms.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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  • The footage shows officers laughing and smiling once Smallwood starts retching, then throws up, the lawsuit notes.
    Julia Marnin, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Dina stumbles from the trees, clearly horrified, and throws up.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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  • Inside the truck, the bodies of three teenage boys hurled forward, each with terrible velocity.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 May 2025
  • The strongest solar flare so far this year hurled streams of plasma and charged particles into the cosmos and caused communications blackouts on five continents.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 15 May 2025

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“Spit up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spit%20up. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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