vomit

Meanings

Verb

• To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
• To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
• To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.

Noun

• The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
• The act of regurgitating.
• That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

Related

Similar words

• barf
• bring up
• chunder
• hurl
• puke
• sick
• throw up

Origin

• From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre, present active infinitive of vomitō, frequentative form of vomō, from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- ("to spew, vomit"). Cognate with Old Norse váma ("nausea, malaise"), Old English wemman ("to defile"). More at wem.