Vomits

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To expel the contents of the stomach through the mouth as a reaction to nausea or excessive consumption To forcibly discharge food or liquid due to illness or discomfort To involuntarily release what has been ingested from the body in a sudden fashion
2. To forcefully throw up the material in the stomach, usually due to sickness or upset stomach
3. To strongly discharge food or liquids from the digestive tract by an involuntary action

Etymology: "Vomits" is the third-person singular present of "vomit", so the story belongs to the verb itself. English took the verb from Latin "vomitare", meaning "vomit repeatedly." That Latin form is a frequentative, a verb built to express repeated or vigorous action, and it grows from "vomere", "be sick, vomit." The Middle English form "vomiten" came through that Latin root. The deeper root reaches back to a reconstructed prehistoric word meaning "to spew," and that same ancestry also gave us Old English "wemman," "to defile," and the Old Norse "vama," "nausea." The English word therefore sits in a family whose older senses were less about the stomach and more about spewing out or fouling something.

Synonyms: expels, disgorges, eructs, spews, regurgitates

Antonyms: swallows, ingests, consumes, absorbs, takes in