as in hurled
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 vomited
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.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
The girl vomited and went to lie down where Marino allegedly rapes her, the prosecutor added.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
All four of the pledges reportedly vomited during that break, the affidavits said.
—Lindsay Good, NBC news, 3 Feb. 2026
An injured man stumbled past me and vomited repeatedly into the snow.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
Tsvyk immediately felt nauseous and vomited on the floor after eating the dessert.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
Quidone walked past a correction officer, looking sick, and again vomited into a dayroom trash bin before moving sluggishly back to his cell.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
Some of the soldiers vomited, and others experienced weakness in their legs when exiting the Ajax vehicles, Britain's The Times reported.
—Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Katy Puig vomited a gush of seawater as a boater hoisted her unconscious body out of the water, fighting the current to get her to a yacht that had come to the rescue before first responders arrived in a flotilla.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
The girl vomited and went to lie down where Marino allegedly rapes her, the prosecutor added.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
All four of the pledges reportedly vomited during that break, the affidavits said.
—Lindsay Good, NBC news, 3 Feb. 2026
An injured man stumbled past me and vomited repeatedly into the snow.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
Tsvyk immediately felt nauseous and vomited on the floor after eating the dessert.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
Quidone walked past a correction officer, looking sick, and again vomited into a dayroom trash bin before moving sluggishly back to his cell.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
Some of the soldiers vomited, and others experienced weakness in their legs when exiting the Ajax vehicles, Britain's The Times reported.
—Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Katy Puig vomited a gush of seawater as a boater hoisted her unconscious body out of the water, fighting the current to get her to a yacht that had come to the rescue before first responders arrived in a flotilla.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomited
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In a Premier League season where set-piece goals are regularly deciding games, the Italy Under-21 international has played a huge part in the renaissance with his long throw-ins, which have been hurled up to 45 yards.—
Caoimhe O'Neill,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The gust tore the vertical fin from the tail and hurled it into the left horizontal stabilizer, which broke off in turn.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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Welcome to the Hotline’s Big 12 men’s basketball power rankings, a weekly assessment of the conference using analytics and common sense, with a strand of pasta occasionally heaved at the wall when mayhem is rampant.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Arráez fielded it cleanly off one bounce and heaved the ball to the infield, where first baseman Rafael Devers cut it off.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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And there are active pages on Bandcamp that have adopted the same skeevy tactics that grifters use on Spotify and YouTube; across a few months last year, the account Cyberfunk Station puked out over 30 albums packed with barely distinguishable, nimble disco grooves.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
28 Jan. 2026
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Megan couldn't choke down a single sip of the chicken smoothie and almost puked in the sink after trying it.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
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Everyone’s gagged for the poster.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
3 Feb. 2026
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Heated Rivalry‘s Hudson Williams gagged Gayle King at the 2026 Golden Globes.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Vomited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vomited. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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