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
Jolene struggled after the surgery and was vomiting and passing out frequently.
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Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
Some pets may vomit, lose their appetite, or hide more than usual.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
During a practice in August 2024, he was hit hard, but never exhibited typical concussion symptoms like vomiting or losing consciousness.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
But its blunt, inelegant dialogue is peppered with characters (metaphorically) vomiting up their darkest secrets.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
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Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
Some pets may vomit, lose their appetite, or hide more than usual.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
During a practice in August 2024, he was hit hard, but never exhibited typical concussion symptoms like vomiting or losing consciousness.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
But its blunt, inelegant dialogue is peppered with characters (metaphorically) vomiting up their darkest secrets.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomit
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The New York Islanders are facing questions about a jumbotron promotion urging hockey fans to donate to a former New York City police sergeant who was recently convicted of manslaughter for hurling a cooler of ice at a man fleeing arrest.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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On Friday, a man hurled a Molotov cocktail at the gate in front of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
16 Apr. 2026
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There’s strong waves of desire to puke.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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The image of Katherine Heigl puking at work in Knocked Up is permanently seared into my mind.—
Julia Ries Wexler,
SELF,
9 Feb. 2026
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The historian Cassius Dio heaved a sigh of relief that those women who entered the arena under Titus were not from the elite.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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Others were heaved from their roots.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
15 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Don’t gag, don’t cry — and my stomach lurched.—
Kate Crane,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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During Aguirre’s trial, prosecutors told jurors that the boy was routinely beaten, shot with a BB gun, forced to eat cat feces and sleep inside a small cabinet while gagged and bound.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
30 Mar. 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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Tell your dog to barf on my shoes.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
4 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 19 Apr. 2026.
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