Thesaurus:vomit
English
Noun
Sense: the regurgitated former contents of a stomach
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
- dry heaves (same physiologic mechanism but without any vomitus)
Various
- barf (verb)
- emesis (medical, usually meaning the action or process, sometimes the vomitus)
- heave (verb)
- hurl (verb)
- launch lunch (verb)
- launch one's lunch (verb)
- lose one's lunch (verb)
- puke (verb)
- ralph (verb)
- spew (verb)
- throw up (verb)
- upchuck (verb)
- vomit (verb)
- yak (verb)
See also
- (verb): Thesaurus:regurgitate
- (adjective): Thesaurus:nauseated
Further reading
- “297. ejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “vomit” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.