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  1. intransitive verb To eject part or all of the contents of the stomach through the mouth, usually in a series of involuntary spasmic movements.
  2. intransitive verb To be discharged forcefully and abundantly; spew or gush: The dike burst, and the floodwaters vomited forth.
  3. transitive verb To eject (contents of the stomach) through the mouth.
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  • He returned like the dog to the vomit, and his last state was worse than his first. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed
  • She threw up so abruptly that she didn't have time to move first -- her vomit was a smear down the door and onto the floor beneath it. —  Heartfire
  • A suitable place to vomit was abruptly a primary concern. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • The colony groups have all been rather small. —  A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • "The Girls are long dead." —  A World Out of Time
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre, frequentative of vomere; see wemə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin vomitus, -past participle of vomere (later Italian vomire = French vomir: see vome), vomit, discharge, = Greek ἐμεῖν = Sanskrit √ vam, vomit. Cf. emetic
  2. = Spanish vómito = Portuguese Italian vomito, from Latin vomitus, a throwing up, vomiting, vomit, from vomere, past participle vomitus, vomit: see vomit, v.
 

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