vomit

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsvomit uppurgecastsickcatbe sickdisgorgeregorgeretchpukebarfspewspuechuck

   Antonymskeep down

   Broaderexcrete

Other forms of vomit

plural

vomits·

past tense

vomitted·

present participle

vomitting·

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 vomit

What does vomit mean?

vomit means "the matter ejected in vomiting". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vomit?

vomit has 2 syllables: vo-mit. The stress falls on "vo". In IPA it is /ˈvɑmət/.

What is another word for vomit?

Close synonyms include vomitus, puke, barf, emetic, vomitive. 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.

What is the opposite of vomit?

The recorded antonyms are keep down.

Is vomit a common word?

vomit is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.