revomitv.
/ˌriːˈvɒmɪt/, U.S. /riˈvɑmət/ transitive. To vomit back; to bring up again. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (transitive)] > vomit
spew971
aspewc1200
to gulch out?c1225
casta1300
vomea1382
brake1393
evacuec1400
to cast outa1425
deliver?a1425
voida1425
evomec1450
evomit?a1475
disgorge1477
to cast up1483
degorge1493
vomish1536
retch1538
parbreak1540
reject1540
vomit1541
evacuate1542
revomit1545
belch1558
vomit1560
to lay up1570
upvomit1582
to fetch up1599
puke1601
respew1606
inbelch1610
spew1610
to throw up1614
exgurgitate1623
out-spew1647
egurgitate1656
to throw off1660
to bring up1719
pick1828
sick1924
yark1927
barf1960
to park the tiger1970
vom1991
1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (vi.) f. 87 Pillis medecyns or pocions, which if ye syke bodye reuomite, there is no helth to be loked fore.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiv. xxii. 426 Vomiting and revomiting twice or thrice together that which they have drunke.
1678 J. Shirley Short Compend. Chirurgery viii. 127 If you will know what quantity of Blood they have drawn, lay them in the things aforesaid, and they will revomit it.
1785 H. Swinburne Trav. in Two Sicilies II. lvi. 387 The alternate action of swallowing up and revomiting the wreck.
1890 tr. C. Letourneau Biology ii. xii. 182 The actinia devoured by a larger individual of its own species is often revomited safe and sound.
1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. iv. 95 It was like a sleet of Norman arrows, a perpetual and bewildering rain of falling and ascending birds; gorged, they simply re-vomited their food and continued.
2005 C. Albanese & B. Holinbeck Labor 35 George was never partial to warm, pickled eel tripe..and re-vomited the nasty stuff immediately.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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