different between vomit vs vomitory
vomit
English
Etymology
From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomit?re, present active infinitive of vomit? (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vom? (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh?- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: v?m'it, IPA(key): /?v?m?t/
- Rhymes: -?m?t
- (US) enPR: v?m'it, IPA(key): /?v?m?t/
Verb
vomit (third-person singular simple present vomits, present participle vomiting, simple past and past participle vomited)
- (intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
- The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
- (transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
- 1988, Angela Carter, ‘Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 713:
- 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 2013, p. 713:
- To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45-46]:
- "Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke. It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.
- After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45-46]:
Synonyms
Derived terms
- vomitable
Translations
Noun
vomit (usually uncountable, plural vomits)
- The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
- The act of regurgitating.
- (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:vomit.
Translations
Derived terms
- vomit comet
See also
- emetic
French
Verb
vomit
- third-person singular present indicative of vomir
- third-person singular past historic of vomir
Latin
Verb
vomit
- third-person singular present active indicative of vom?
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [vo?mit]
Verb
vomit
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of vomita
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vomitory
English
Etymology
From Latin vomit?rium, early 17th c.
Noun
vomitory (plural vomitories)
- The entrance into a theater or other large public venue, where masses of people are disgorged into the stands; a vomitorium
- Synonym: vomitorium
- (pharmacology) A substance that induces vomiting; an emetic
- Synonyms: emetic, vomitive
Adjective
vomitory (comparative more vomitory, superlative most vomitory)
- (medicine, pharmacology) Inducing vomiting; emetic
Synonyms
- vomitive
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