vomiting

verb

present participle of vomit
as in hurling
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 vomiting 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 Soap and water keep you safe, though, so if someone around you is vomiting or has diarrhea, Griffin says, head for the sink. — Angela Haupt, Time, 27 July 2026 Within a day or two, the dog stopped eating and started vomiting. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2026 Holland started coughing before bending over and ended up vomiting. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 July 2026 And the consequences of a curious nibble can range from vomiting to emergency surgery to death. — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026 If symptoms escalate to vomiting, wobbling or bright red gums, get to a veterinarian as quickly as possible. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026 And Sydney vomiting out the news of Carmy’s departure is definitely something. — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026 The pulses are designed to normalize the nerve messaging from the brain to the stomach to relieve symptoms of nausea and vomiting without side effects. — ABC News, 22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vomiting
  1. hurling
  2. gagging
  3. heaving
  4. puking
  5. retching
Verb
  • Video from outside the arena shows counterprotesters shouting through megaphones, hurling slurs and attempting to rip XX-XY shirts from the hands of Cunningham’s supporters.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • While brief, the gag points to the extreme side of identity politics, where hurling accusations against others for their online transgressions is all too common.
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2026
Definition of hurling
Verb
  • 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
  • Demoustier holds her nose and mimes gagging.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 13 May 2026
Definition of gagging
Verb
  • Niemann hit two drives off the property, chopped his way up the fairway and finally lost it by heaving his club.
    — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
  • The 1926 storm was more like a steamroller, heaving its hurricane strength winds across 135 miles, from the Keys to West Palm Beach, for nearly 18 hours.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
Definition of heaving
Verb
  • Annabelle wants souls, demons possess you by puking into your mouth, and no powers of darkness are stronger than the love between spooky mom and dad, Ed and Lorraine Warren.
    — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Definition of puking
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
  • As Newcastle prepared to kick-off towards the Gallowgate End, Ramsey began retching.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
Definition of retching

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