to be sick

Examples

• All

• It went from being sick kind of in the evening hours to being sick all day, all night.

• Myrmeen felt as if she were going to be sick and forced down the mounting bile in her throat.

  Fiction book (1992)

• I was going to be sick right there by the cash register.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I just feel like I'm gonna be sick.

  Phantoms (1998)

• I think I'm gonna be sick.

  Demolition Man (1993)

• I'm just so tired of being sick.

  The Cobweb (1955)

• I got the news that I was sick on the afternoon of my 39th birthday.

  Academic text (2007)

• I thought Allison was going to be sick after that news.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The weekend that problems arose, she had been out for a Thai meal and was sick in the night.

  Academic text (2012)

• After riding the roller coaster, I suddenly felt dizzy and thought I might be sick.

Synonyms

T

to throw up

vsto be sick

• Informal

296 2.3

To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth

is the neutral, dictionary description of bringing up stomach contents

P

to puke

vsto be sick

• NSFW

186 6.6

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

is the neutral term used in standard descriptions

V

to vomit

vsto be sick

148 1.0

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

is the neutral everyday action of bringing up stomach contents

B

to barf

vsto be sick

• NSFW

38 7.7

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

is the neutral, non-slang description suitable for general use

R

to retch

vsto be sick

9 7.2

To make a strong, uncontrolled effort to vomit, sometimes bringing up food from your stomach

is the general action of actually bringing the contents up

C

to cast

vsto be sick

• Archaic

9 9.3

To throw up what is in the stomach

is the current neutral term used in everyday descriptions

S

to spew

vsto be sick

• Informal

9 5.7

To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach

describes the same act but without stressing intensity or quantity

P

to puke up

vsto be sick

• Informal

8 8.2

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

covers bringing up stomach contents generally, not just eaten food

P

to puke my guts out

vsto be sick

• NSFW

7 9.9

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

is the neutral description without implying repeated violent episodes

C

to chuck

vsto be sick

• UK

7 9.6

To be sick and bring food up from your stomach

is the neutral term preferred in formal or explanatory contexts

R

to regurgitate

vsto be sick

5 7.7

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

is the human bodily action of expelling stomach contents through the mouth

R

to ralph

vsto be sick

• Slang

4 9.5

To force food or drink out of your mouth

remains a neutral, non-coarse description suitable for general use

H

to honk

vsto be sick

• NSFW

4 9.3

To throw up when you feel sick

is the straightforward factual description without slang or humor

U

to upchuck

vsto be sick

• NSFW

3 8.8

To throw up food and drink from your stomach

keeps the meaning neutral and avoids playful or comic tone

V

to vomit up

vsto be sick

• Informal

3 3.6

Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth

focuses on the general act of bringing contents up rather than force

S

to sick

vsto be sick

1 7.4

To throw up

gives the same neutral description but as the head definition

S

to spue

vsto be sick

• NSFW

1 9.9

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

restricts meaning to stomach contents specifically rather than other material

D

to disgorge

vsto be sick

8.7

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

is the simple everyday description without formal or literary tone

R

to regorge

vsto be sick

9.9

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

is the basic action without the added image of pouring out

P

to puke guts out

vsto be sick

• NSFW

9.2

To throw up a lot with great force

describes the act without implying extreme violence or repetition

How Sick

to vomit

148 1.0

to be sick

109 1.7

retch

1 8.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology