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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: vomit, vomitus, puke, barf] v
1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1956 vomit

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. sl. --v.intr. vomit or retch. --n. an attack of vomiting. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(barfs, barfing, barfed) If someone barfs, they vomit. (mainly AM INFORMAL) VERB

Moby Thesaurus

be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, cascade, cast, choke on, chuck up, disgorge, disgorgement, egest, egesta, egestion, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, gagging, heave, heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, keck, nausea, puke, regurgitate, regurgitation, reject, retch, sick up, sicken at, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomiting, vomition