Vomit Up (Verb)
Meaning
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
- She felt a wave of nausea and began to vomit up the spoiled food she had eaten for dinner.
- The overwhelmed infant vomited up the entire bottle of milk her mother had just fed her.
- His body reacted to the poison by vomiting up everything he had consumed that day.
- The extreme motion of the boat caused several passengers to vomit up their lunch over the rail.
- The doctor suspected food poisoning when the patient vomited up the restaurant meal from the night before.
Synonyms
- Cast
- Honk
- Purge
- Sick
- Retch
- Chuck
- Spew
- Cat
- Puke
- Be Sick
- Barf
- Vomit
- Throw Up
- Regorge
- Spue
- Regurgitate
- Upchuck
- Disgorge