Vomit Meaning
/ˈvɒmɪt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
verbTo regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
Sentence Examples
Get rid of this vomit yourself!
The bus ride made her feel so sick that she began to vomit.
If you feel sick, you have to vomit?
CEFR Practice Quiz
After eating the spoiled food, he felt sick and immediately started to ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The patient began to ____ after he had eaten some spoiled food, so we took him to the city hospital today.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jonah 2:10:
"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:
"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 Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
"[…]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, page 19:
"There was a chest of drawers with an escrutoire top, for Uriah to read or write at of an evening; there was Uriah’s blue bag lying down and vomiting papers; there was a company of Uriah’s books, commanded by Mr. Tidd; there was a corner cupboard; and there were the usual articles of furniture."
— 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “Somebody Turns Up”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 181:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After eating the spoiled food, he felt sick and immediately started to ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The patient began to ____ after he had eaten some spoiled food, so we took him to the city hospital today.