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vomit

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1. vomit - Noun

2. vomit - Verb

Meaning

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.

Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.

Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.

That which excites vomiting; an emetic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it. Miguel de Cervantes

I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror. J. G. Ballard

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out. Robert A. Heinlein

The dog returns to its vomit. German Proverb

The dog has returned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. American Proverb

Only a dog does retrun tuh ‘e vomit. Bajan Proverb

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