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Verb: be sick
Usage: Brit
  1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    "The child was sick after eating too much candy";
    - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], keck [informal], vom [informal], boak [UK, dialect], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal], bring up

Derived forms: was sick, being sick, is sick, been sick

Type of: egest, eliminate, excrete, pass