vomit

UK/ˈvɒmɪt//ˈvɑmɪt/

vomit verb: to regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.

Verb

vomit (third-person singular simple present vomits, present participle vomiting, simple past and past participle vomited)

(intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
- The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jonah 2:10
(transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
- It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.1988, Angela Carter, “Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 713
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.1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...

Noun

vomit (usually uncountable, plural vomits)

(usually) The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
- For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 28:8
(usually) The act of regurgitating.
(usually) 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.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
(informal, usually) 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."1936, John Wyndham, Stowaway to Mars, published 1972, page x. 81
(countable, obsolete, usually) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
- He gives your Hollander a vomit.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

vomit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

vomit in Hindi

regurgitate the contents of a stomach: उल्टी करना ulṭī karnā, वमन करना vaman karnā, उल्टी ulṭī
regurgitated former contents of a stomach: उल्टी ulṭī
act of vomiting: उल्टी करना ulṭī karnā

vomit in Tamil

regurgitate the contents of a stomach: குமட்டு kumaṭṭu, உவட்டு uvaṭṭu, உவாந்தி uvānti, வாந்தி vānti
regurgitated former contents of a stomach: வாந்தி vānti

vomit in Urdu

regurgitate the contents of a stomach: اُلْٹی کَرنا ulṭī karnā
regurgitated former contents of a stomach: اُلْٹی ulṭī

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vomit in Bengali: বমি bomi, কয় koẏ
vomit in Telugu: వాంతి vānti
vomit in Malayalam: ഛർദ്ദി chaṟddi, ഛർദ്ദിക്കുക chaṟddikkuka, കക്കുക kakkuka, കമിട്ടുക kamiṭṭuka
vomit in Kannada: ವಾಂತಿ, ವಮನ, ಕಕ್ಕುವುದು, ಕಾರುವಿಕೆ
vomit in Punjabi: ਉਲਟੀ ਕਰਨਾ ulaṭī karnā, ਉਗਲ਼ੱਛਣਾ ugaḷacchaṇā, ਉਬਾਕਣਾ ubākṇā, ਉਲਟੀ ulṭī
vomit in Gujarati: ઊલટી ūlaṭī, વામવું vāmvũ, ઓકવું okavũ
vomit in Odia: ବାନ୍ତି କରିବା bānti karibā
vomit in Sanskrit: वमति vamati
vomit in Sinhala: වමනයකරනවා wamanayakaranawā
vomit in Assamese: বমি কৰা bomi kora, বমি bomi
vomit in Nepali: वाक्नु wāknu, बान्ता गर्नु bāntā garnu, छाद्नु chādnu
vomit in Tagalog: sumuka, suka
vomit in Arabic: تَقَيَّأَ taqayyaʔa, قَاءَ qāʔa, اِسْتَفْرَغَ istafraḡa, تَقَيُّؤ taqayyuʔ
vomit in Malay: muntah, muntahan
vomit in Indonesian: memuntahkan, muntah
vomit in Persian: قی کردن qay kardan, بالا آوردن bâlâ âvordan, قی qey
vomit in Thai: อาเจียน aa-jiian, อ้วก ûuak
vomit in Vietnamese: nôn, mửa, ói
vomit in Myanmar: အန် an

Examples of vomit in a sentence

[…]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.1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Levitical”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC...
"Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke.1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter III, in The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I...
After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...

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Synonyms of vomit

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Forms of vomit

Verb
third-person singular present	vomits
present participle	vomiting
past participle	vomited
past	vomited
Noun
plural	vomits

Past tense of vomit: vomited

Origin of vomit

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.

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Questions about vomit

What does vomit mean?: Vomit means to regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
What is vomit in Hindi?: Vomit in Hindi is उल्टी करना (ulṭī karnā), वमन करना (vaman karnā), उल्टी (ulṭī). See Vomit meaning in Hindi.
How do you use vomit in a sentence?: […]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.
What part of speech is vomit?: Vomit can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce vomit?: Vomit is pronounced /ˈvɒmɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of vomit?: The past tense of vomit is vomited.

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