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vomiting blood

vomiting blood is the present participle and gerund of vomit.

Meaning of vomit

Verb

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

  1. (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
  2. (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
  3. To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
    • She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.

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Questions about vomiting blood

What is vomiting blood the present participle and gerund of?
Vomiting blood is the present participle and gerund of vomit.

Words near vomiting blood in the dictionary

  1. vomiter
  2. vomiters
  3. vomitest
  4. vomiteth
  5. vomiting
  6. vomiting blood
  7. vomiting nut
  8. vomiting nuts
  9. vomiting up
  10. vomitingly
  11. vomitings

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