vomiting

English

Verb

vomiting

1. present participle and gerund of vomit

Noun

vomiting (countable and uncountable, plural vomitings)

1. (bacteriology) The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

     Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

   • 1856, William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone, The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences:

     It is certainly probable that these black vomitings and stools may be absent, and in that case it would be extremely difficult to diagnose between simple ulcer of the stomach and non-ulcerative gastritis.

Synonyms

• purging, throwing up; see also Thesaurus:vomit

Derived terms

• coffee ground vomiting
• cyclical vomiting syndrome
• cyclic vomiting syndrome
• Jamaican vomiting sickness
• winter vomiting disease

 

Translations

action of the verb vomit

• Arabic: قَيْءُ m (qayʔu), اِسْتِفْرَاغ m (istifrāḡ)

  Egyptian Arabic: ترجيع m (targīʕ), قيئ m (qēʔ), استفراغ m (estefrāḡ)

• Bulgarian: повръ́щане n (povrǎ́štane)
• Galician: vómito m
• Georgian: რწყევა (rc̣q̇eva), ღებინება (ka) (ɣebineba)
• Hebrew: הֲקָאָה (he) f (haka'á)
• Hungarian: hányás (hu), okádás (hu)
• Irish: urlacan m, orla m

  Old Irish: urlacad m, urlacan m

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەراژ (heraj)

• Latin: vomitiō (la) f
• Marathi: उलटी f (ulṭī)
• Russian: рво́та (ru) f (rvóta)
• Scottish Gaelic: cur a-mach m, dìobhairt m, sgeitheadh m, tilgeadh m, tilgeil f
• Swahili: utapishi (sw)
• Telugu: కక్కుట (te) (kakkuṭa)

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