THROW UP Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

throw up

verb

as in to vomit

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth she must have eaten something that didn't agree with her because she threw up right after dinner

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as in to throw together

to make or assemble roughly or hastily when the townspeople realized that the President's motorcade would be coming through on its way to the conference, they threw up a hasty "Welcome" sign

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Recent Examples of throw up Later, the game is paused after a player from visitors Buxton throws up on the pitch, with sand used to cover the affected area. —

Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026 Popular talk show host Colin Cowherd, who is paid to have opinions, threw up his arms recently on the topic and said his only suggestion was for Silver to channel his more-confrontational predecessor David Stern and yell at losing teams. —

David K. Li, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026 Some, without even asking, just threw up their hands, and, annoyed, picked up their pace and kept walking up Vorovsky Street. —

Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026 Kwabena literally throws up into his hands, and then there’s a jump cut. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for throw up

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Levy brought the dog in dead and claimed that that the dog had a seizure and was vomiting, choking and twitching before his death.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
After all, the other person almost eliminated first (Chrissy Hofbeck, who vomited earlier that day at the challenge) ended up making it all the way to day 39.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026