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to throw up

296 2.3
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
  • phrasal verb
  • /θroʊ ʌp/
  • Informal
translation icon : vomitar
  • Have you ever thrown up in the front row of a Richard Marx concert?

Thank God, because I was about to throw up, nervous.

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Examples

  • I think I'm going to throw up.

    Crocodile Dundee (1986)

  • Ugh, I'm gonna throw up!

    Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

  • Some places make you sick, make you throw up, make your heart race.

  • Get on the bus, throw up, drink some water.

  • Do one thing that makes you want to throw up every single day.

  • We will guess whether or not they are going to throw up or keep it down.

  • I got through the second bite and threw up all over the dinner table.

    Blog text (14)

  • So I've been been throwing up all morning and now back to work.

  • You wanna throw up?

    Fletch (1985)

  • After eating too much at dinner, I felt nauseous and had to throw up in the bathroom.

Synonyms

to puke
vsto throw up
  • NSFW
186 6.6

To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick

is the same meaning but differs only in wording
to vomit
vsto throw up
148 1.0

To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth

is more general and does not stress strong force
to be sick
vsto throw up
109 1.7

To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth

is the same meaning but differs only in wording
to barf
vsto throw up
  • NSFW
38 7.7

To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth

is the same meaning but differs only in wording
to cast
vsto throw up
  • Archaic
9 9.3

To throw up what is in the stomach

is the same meaning but differs only in wording
to spew
vsto throw up
  • Informal
9 5.7

To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach

is the usual act but does not always emphasize strong force
to puke up
vsto throw up
  • Informal
8 8.2

To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick

is used for the general act, not only after recent eating
to puke my guts out
vsto throw up
  • NSFW
7 9.9

Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much

is the general act without repeated violent force
to chuck
vsto throw up
  • UK
7 9.6

To be sick and bring food up from your stomach

is the same meaning without the informal tone
to blow chunks
vsto throw up
  • NSFW
6 9.9

Throw up forcefully when you feel very sick

is the same action but without informal slang and emphasis on force
to regurgitate
vsto throw up
5 7.7

To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth

is the general act of ejecting stomach contents into the mouth
to ralph
vsto throw up
  • Slang
4 9.5

To force food or drink out of your mouth

is the same meaning but differs only in wording
to honk
vsto throw up
  • NSFW
4 9.3

To throw up when you feel sick

is the same meaning but without a slang tone
to upchuck
vsto throw up
  • NSFW
3 8.8

To throw up food and drink from your stomach

is the same meaning without informal wording
to vomit up
vsto throw up
  • Informal
3 3.6

Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth

is the broader act without necessarily stressing force
to sick
vsto throw up
1 7.4

To throw up

is the same meaning but differs only in wording
to spue
vsto throw up
  • NSFW
1 9.9

To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit

is limited to bringing stomach contents up rather than any mouth material
to boke
vsto throw up
  • Slang
1 9.9

To throw up when you feel sick

is the same meaning but not marked as regional slang
to chunder
vsto throw up
  • Australian
1 9.9

To throw up because you feel sick

is the same action but without the slang or informal label
to regorge
vsto throw up
9.9

To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick

is the same meaning but differs only in wording
to disgorge
vsto throw up
8.7

To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick

is the same meaning but differs only in wording
to regurge
vsto throw up
  • Archaic
9.9

To bring food or liquid back into the mouth from the stomach without strong vomiting

is the general action that can include stronger, forceful cases
to puke guts out
vsto throw up
  • NSFW
9.2

To throw up a lot with great force

is the general act without violent force or large volume
to launch one's lunch
vsto throw up
  • Slang
9.9

To throw up food you just ate

is the neutral description rather than a playful informal phrase

Antonyms

to ingest
68 3.6

To eat or drink something so it goes into your body

How Sick

to throw up
  • Informal
296 2.3
to retch
9 7.2
sick
579 1.0

Surface Forms

throw up infinitive
throwing up present participle
throws up third person singular
threw up past
thrown up past participle

Morphology

throw + up

The computing sense 'to display or generate on a screen' is a metaphorical extension of 'throw' (propel) + 'up' (to a higher position), so there is some compositional link (cause something to appear/be brought up). However this is a specialized, technical usage and not an immediately obvious meaning for a B1 learner (who may instead think of the common bodily meaning 'vomit'), so the relation is only partially predictable.

Etymology

Throw up comes from the simple picture of the stomach pushing food out: the verb throw plus the direction up, as if the stomach 'throws' its contents upward and out of the mouth. That's why it means 'to vomit'.