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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To send or force out in or as if in a stream; eject forcefully or in large amounts: a volcano that spewed molten lava; spewed invective at his opponent.
  2. v. To vomit or otherwise cast out through the mouth.
  3. v. To flow or gush forth: Water was spewing from the hydrant.
  4. v. To vomit.
  5. n. Something spewed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To discharge the contents of the stomach; vomit; puke.
  2. In gunnery, to run at the mouth: said of a gun which bends at the chase, or whose muzzle droops, from too quick firing.
  3. To vomit; puke up or out; eject from or as if from the stomach.
  4. To eject as if by retching or heaving; send or cast forth from within; drive by internal force or effort: often used figuratively.
  5. To exude grease or become dull on the surface after being finished a short time: said of leather.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to eject forcibly and in a stream
  2. v. slang to vomit
  3. v. slang to ejaculate
  4. v. slang to laugh unexpectedly while drinking, causing drink to exit the nose
  5. n. slang vomit or sick
  6. n. slang ejaculate

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
  2. v. To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
  3. v. To vomit.
  4. v. To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
  5. n. That which is vomited; vomit.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
  2. v. expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
  3. v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Etymologies

  1. From Old English spīwan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwanan; cognate to the German speien ("to spew, spit, vomit"). Cognate with Albanian shpif ("to disgust, slander"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English spewen, from Old English spīwan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb It is a most terrible bore
    to haemorrhage, spewing up gore,
    and, bubbling for breath,
    be blood-drowned to death.
    Je ne voudrais pas être mort.

    You find the limerick inapposite? Care for a cutely-adapted Adonic?

    After he spewed up
    he was unconscious
    till about tea-time,
    when he woke-up, then
    vomited once more
    (blood and fish-smelling
    purplish matter).

    - Peter Reading, C, 1984 Jul 4, 2008

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