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1. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   - vomit, emesis [technical], regurgitation, disgorgement, puking

1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   "After drinking too much, the students vomited";
   - vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick, disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up, vom [informal], keck [informal], hurl [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], chunder [Brit, informal], boke [UK, dialect], boak [UK, dialect]

Derived forms: vomitings

Type of: egest, ejection, eliminate, excrete, expulsion, forcing out, inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, pass, physiological reaction, projection, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex

Encyclopedia: Vomiting