vomit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To throw up the contents of the stomach through the mouth.

   He felt so sick that he vomited.

2. 2
   noun

   The food and liquid that comes up when someone is sick.

   There was vomit on the floor of the bus.

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.

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