Cat (Verb)
Meaning 1
Beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Hypernyms
Related Words
Meaning 2
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night".
Classification
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.
Examples
- After eating the spoiled food the child began to cat suddenly and the mother got worried.
- A pregnant woman experienced morning sickness and had to cat on several occasions.
- The doctor administered the antidote, but it caused the patient to cat right away.
- Excessive consumption of intoxicating liquor made the individual cat all over the floor.
- The smell from the spoiled dumpster caused an onlooker to cat unnoticed behind the alley.
Synonyms
- Cast
- Vomit Up
- Honk
- Purge
- Sick
- Retch
- Chuck
- Spew
- Puke
- Be Sick
- Barf
- Vomit
- Throw Up
- Regorge
- Spue
- Regurgitate
- Upchuck
- Disgorge