vomiting

Other forms of vomiting

plural

vomitings·

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 vomiting

What does vomiting mean?

vomiting means "the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth".

How many syllables are in vomiting?

vomiting has 3 syllables: vo-mi-ting. The stress falls on "vo". In IPA it is /ˈvɑmətɪŋ/.

What is another word for vomiting?

Close synonyms include vomit, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking. 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 vomiting a common word?

vomiting is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.