vomiting

vomiting

English

Verb

vomiting

1. present participle of vomit

Noun

vomiting (countable and uncountable, plural vomitings)

1. The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
   • Jeremy Taylor

     Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

   • 1856, William Harcourt Ranking, ‎Charles Bland Radcliffe, ‎William Dommett Stone, The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences

     It is certainly probable that these black vomitings and stools may be absent, and in that case it would be extremely difficult to diagnose between simple ulcer of the stomach and non-ulcerative gastritis.

Synonyms

• purging, throwing up; see also Thesaurus:vomit

Translations

action of the verb vomit

Arabic: قَيْءُ‎ m (qayʾu), اِسْتِفْرَاغ‎ m (istifrāḡ) Egyptian Arabic: ترجيع‎ m (targiiʕ), قيئ‎ m (qéʔ), استفراغ‎ m (estefraağ) Galician: vómito m Georgian: რწყევა (rc̣q̇eva), ღებინება (ka) (ɣebineba) Irish: urlacan m, orla m Old Irish: urlacad m, urlacan m

Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ھەراژ‎ (heraj) Latin: vomitiō (la) f Marathi: उलटी f (ulTi) Russian: рво́та (ru) f (rvóta) Telugu: కక్కుట (te) (kakkuṭa)

Anagrams

• motiving