to spew
9
5.7
- verb
- /spjuː/
- Informal
:
vomitar
- After drinking too much, I felt nauseous and knew I was about to spew all over the floor.
- spewed from her mouth
- spewed vomit
- spewing blood
And I'm just, like, spewing my guts up onto the train floor.
- And I'm just, like, spewing my guts up onto the train floor.
- I think I'm, I think I'm going to spew.
- I'd binge until I needed to spew and I would vomit and then I would binge again.
- I I spewed this morning for no reason at all.
Examples
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One of the cats spewed up.
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Oh, I think I'm gonna spew.
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I I spewed this morning for no reason at all.
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Tom spews the contents of his mouth all over Jim in response.
Fiction book (1991) -
I actually spewed up some of my stomach lining.
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Hot, sour vomit clogged her throat, shot up her nose, and spewed onto the floor.
Fiction book (2000) -
The smell of rotten food made him gag as he prepared to spew into the trash can.
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Feeling sick, she quickly ran outside to spew the contents of her stomach onto the grass.
Synonyms
296
2.3
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
186
6.6
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
148
1.0
To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth
109
1.7
To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth
38
7.7
To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth
9
9.3
To throw up what is in the stomach
8
8.2
To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick
7
9.9
Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much
7
9.6
To be sick and bring food up from your stomach
6
9.9
Throw up forcefully when you feel very sick
5
7.7
To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth
4
9.5
To force food or drink out of your mouth
4
9.3
To throw up when you feel sick
3
8.8
To throw up food and drink from your stomach
3
3.6
Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth
1
7.4
To throw up
1
9.9
To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit
To throw up a lot with great force
To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick
To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick
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Etymology
The word spew comes from an old English word meaning 'to spit', so imagine violently throwing something out of your mouth just like a strong kind of spitting. That's why spew is used for vomiting.