to vomit up
3
3.6
- phrasal verb
- /ˈvɑːmɪt ʌp/
- Informal
:
vomitar
- She vomited up all the rage massed inside her.
- vomited up half
You go further and or you run up a hill until your legs burn and you want to vomit up a lung.
- You go further and or you run up a hill until your legs burn and you want to vomit up a lung.
- And he would eat ice cream and he would, the bus ride would shake and make him sick and he would vomit up on the bus doing bus vomit.
Examples
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After drinking the spoiled milk, he had to vomit up everything he had eaten that day.
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I thought the idea was to stop me from vomiting up the poison.
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At last, at long last, I vomited up my rage.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's like vomiting up every resentment I ever had.
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To her chagrin, she vomited up the champagne.
Fiction book (1998) -
He got to his hands and knees and vomited up a gallon of saltwater.
Fiction book (1994) -
When I reached the house, I kept on running into the bathroom, where I slammed the door shut and vomited up half a bag of old candy and a bottle of Pepsi.
Fiction book (1993) -
Feeling nauseous, she rushed to the bathroom to vomit up her dinner.
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The roller coaster ride was so intense that I almost vomited up my lunch.
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
9
5.7
To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach
8
8.2
To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick
7
9.6
To be sick and bring food up from your stomach
7
9.9
Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much
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
1
7.4
To throw up
1
9.9
To throw up when you feel sick
1
9.9
To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit
To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick
To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick
To throw up a lot with great force
To throw up food you just ate
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'vomit' (to bring stomach contents out) plus the particle 'up' indicating direction/completion, so a learner who knows both words will readily infer 'to throw up'. The construction follows a common English verb + particle pattern (and similar directions exist in other languages), making it transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrasal verb vomit up creates a clear image: the verb vomit and the particle up show food or liquid being pushed up from the stomach and out of the mouth. So vomit up means 'to throw up'.