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vomit | emetophobic |

As a noun vomit

is vomit.

As an adjective emetophobic is

pertaining to, or afflicted with, emetophobia, a morbid fear of vomiting.

vomit

English

(wikipedia vomit)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke.
  • * Bible, Jonah ii. 10
    • The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
  • To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
  • * '>citation
    • After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
  • * Milton
    • Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
    • a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery

    Derived terms

    * vomitable

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (-)
  • The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
  • The act of regurgitating.
  • (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He gives your Hollander a vomit .

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    See also

    * emetic ----

    emetophobic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to, or afflicted with, emetophobia, a morbid fear of vomiting.
  • * 2002 , Jenna Glatzer, Paul Foxman, Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders (page 27)
    • I love to read; it was of my saving graces when I went through emetophobic episodes.
  • * 2007 , Nicolette Heaton-Harris, Linda Dean, Living with Emetophobia: Coping with Extreme Fear of Vomiting (page 94)
    • This is a difficult chapter, as I am a mother myself and also emetophobic .