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vomit

verb
/ˈvɒmɪt/UK/ˈvɑmɪt/US

Etymology

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.

  1. derived from *wemh₁-✻
  2. derived from vomitō — “vomit repeatedly”
  3. inherited from vomiten

Definitions

  1. To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

    To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.

    • The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

  2. To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed)

    To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.

  3. To eject from any hollow place

    To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.

    • She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.
    • Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
    • […]a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery, spread noiseless over the fields, the road, the common, and rolled, he said, blue and dim to his very feet.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The regurgitated former contents of a stomach

      The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.

      • For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.

    2. The act of regurgitating.

    3. The act of vomiting.

      • He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.

    4. Anything that is worthless

      Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.

      • "[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."

    5. That which causes vomiting

      That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

      • He gives your Hollander a vomit.

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Derived

dry vomit, word vomit, I need to vomit, projectile vomit, vomitable, vomit blood, vomiting nut, vomitoxin, vomit up, all retch and no vomit, black vomit, block vomit, dog vomit slime mold, sea vomit, unicorn vomit, vom, vomit comet, vomit fraud, vomit green, vomit nut, vomitous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at vomit. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at vomit. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at vomit

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA