vomit

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈvɒmɪt/    /ˈvɑmɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus. uncountable,usually
    — For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.
  2. The act of regurgitating. uncountable,usually
  3. The act of vomiting. uncountable,usually
    — He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.
  4. Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash. informal,uncountable,usually
    — "[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."
  5. That which causes vomiting; an emetic. countable,obsolete,usually
    — He gives your Hollander a vomit.
动词 v.
  1. To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke. intransitive
    — The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
  2. To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew. transitive
    — It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.
  3. To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
    — She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.
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词形变化

vomits present,singular,third-person vomiting participle,present vomited participle,past vomited past vomits plural

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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