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
Few walk out in protest anymore, and fewer still vomit, faint, or require the emergency medical attention the press so loves to lead with.
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Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
Yet to have one lobbed at me intramurally, and by a good buddy like Joshua Messing, made my gut feel as though it were packed with wet sand, too heavy even to vomit.
—Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
Coco Gauff has advanced to the fourth round of the Madrid Open despite falling ill and vomiting on court.
—ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
Luke Sapolu testified that Pulido vomited while in custody hours before the attack.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
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Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
Yet to have one lobbed at me intramurally, and by a good buddy like Joshua Messing, made my gut feel as though it were packed with wet sand, too heavy even to vomit.
—Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
Coco Gauff has advanced to the fourth round of the Madrid Open despite falling ill and vomiting on court.
—ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
Luke Sapolu testified that Pulido vomited while in custody hours before the attack.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomit
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Hokusai is known for its bright rays of debris that stretch thousands of kilometers across the planet, created when material blasted from beneath Mercury's surface was hurled outward during the impact.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
28 May 2026
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The girl hurled the ball all the way down the hallway, and Hadley bounded happily to retrieve and gently return it.—
Laura Ungar,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 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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At the Australian Open, the grounds were heaving and there were lengthy lines to get into smaller courts and for food and drink outlets.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
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Food and drink All-day restaurant Pure serves up a sprawling breakfast buffet complete with omelette and pancake stations, heaving tropical fruit platters, and baked goods galore, including Polynesian treats like coconut bread.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 May 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 5 Jun. 2026.
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