vomit

verb

ˈvä-mət How to pronounce vomit (audio)
Definition of vomitnext
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 His child, who had once vomited silently in the bathtub, then gone on playing happily with her bath toys. — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026 Moments later, Owen vomits in front of her after eating his and Malika’s meals at dinner. — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Herzog hadn’t gained any weight, still didn’t have a noticeable baby bump and was vomiting throughout the day, every day, when her obstetrician officially diagnosed her with hyperemesis gravidarum. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026 Any attempt to recapture their childhoods was quickly quashed, however, as exemplified by Dee getting her hair caught in a drop-tower ride and Dennis vomiting right next to her. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for vomit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomit
  1. hurl
  2. puke
  3. heave
  4. gag
  5. barf
  6. retch
Verb
  • Kirk got the win with 5 1/3 innings to beat NorCal in the unofficial state title game in the region opener on Sunday, two days before Martinez hurled a complete-game one-hitter to beat Hawaii in the region semifinal.
    — Dennis Pope, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In the attack on Don Maca a few days later, one of the 20 crew members said the first blast hurled him into the air.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of hurl
Verb
  • Iverson sacrificed his pint-sized body daily; McNabb puked in a Super Bowl huddle.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
  • One of them puked on the sidewalk, and Gould took their spots.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 22 July 2026
Definition of puke
Verb
  • In Aleppo, in the suburbs of Damascus, across Syria, people and neighborhoods heaved under the trauma of the last 14 years.
    — Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Eddie Williams was taking a merciless pounding against her planking as the sodden wreck heaved and rolled.
    — JAMES D. OXLEY, Outdoor Life, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of heave
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  • The body of a YouTuber, El Pinky, was found showing signs that he had been gagged and bound.
    — Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The important thing to know is that these techniques should only be used if your pet is truly choking – not simply coughing or gagging – and your pet should still be seen by a veterinarian afterward, even if the object is removed.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of gag
Verb
  • Then Holland got up to snap a photo with Bernthal and Evans and barfed on the floor.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of barf
Verb
  • 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
  • Even the sound of the breaking chips made June retch.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
Definition of retch

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