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vomit

Best crossword clue

"Eject stomach contents"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈvɒmɪt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted imotvStarts with VEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Word origin

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.

Used in a sentence

  • The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
  • She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.
  • Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
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