cat

1. 1.

   beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails

   Broaderflog
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsvomitvomit uppurgecastsickbe sickdisgorgeregorgeretchpukebarfspewspuechuck

   Broaderexcrete

Other forms of cat

plural

cats·

past tense or participle

catted

present participle

catting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cat

What does cat mean?

cat means "feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cat?

cat has 1 syllable: cat. In IPA it is /ˈkæt/.

What is another word for cat?

Close synonyms include true cat, guy, hombre, bozo, sod. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cat a common word?

cat is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cat?

7 words rhyme with cat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.