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
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.
—Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
Later that night, Beanz started vomiting.
—Sacbee.com, 1 June 2026
If your dog’s panting is accompanied by episodes of collapse, pale or blue-tinged gums, inability to walk, vomiting, or not eating, take it to an emergency clinic immediately.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
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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.
—Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
Later that night, Beanz started vomiting.
—Sacbee.com, 1 June 2026
If your dog’s panting is accompanied by episodes of collapse, pale or blue-tinged gums, inability to walk, vomiting, or not eating, take it to an emergency clinic immediately.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomit
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Or other words that have been hurled at him.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2026
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Jets and winds from black holes are textbook physics, and scientists have observed many supermassive black holes hurling them into space.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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There’s strong waves of desire to puke.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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In other words, the Canadiens did not puke all over themselves.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Moscow’s next move, as its skyline heaves with sooty smoke, must be to find a way to accept its weakness, and accommodate it, while not projecting anything other than strength.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
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Fans fought in the streets, heaved bottles, smashed windows and shouted filthy insults in the melee, which left nearly 50 people injured.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
15 June 2026
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My mother felt grit on her skin and the fumes gagged her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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This Spanish detective thriller The Marked Woman follows a pair of police officers who are assigned the case of an amnesiac woman found bound and gagged in a shipping container at the Port of Barcelona.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
27 May 2026
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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.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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New Royals outfielder Isaac Collins barfed while riding on a roller coaster.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
23 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Aaron Matz,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Even the sound of the breaking chips made June retch.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Vomit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vomit. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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