be sick

be sick
verb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
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After drinking too much, the students vomited

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He purged continuously

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The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Syn:
vomit, ↑vomit up, ↑purge, ↑cast, ↑sick, ↑cat, ↑disgorge, ↑regorge, ↑retch, ↑puke, ↑barf, ↑spew, ↑spue, ↑chuck, ↑upchuck, ↑honk, ↑regurgitate, ↑throw up
Ant: ↑keep down (for: ↑vomit)
Derivationally related forms:
regurgitation (for: ↑regurgitate), ↑spewer (for: ↑spew), ↑puke (for: ↑puke), ↑puking (for: ↑puke), ↑retch (for: ↑retch), ↑disgorgement (for: ↑disgorge), ↑sick (for: ↑sick), ↑vomit (for: ↑vomit), ↑vomiter (for: ↑vomit), ↑vomiting (for: ↑vomit)
Hypernyms: ↑excrete, ↑egest, ↑eliminate, ↑pass
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something

(for: ↑throw up)
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Somebody ——s something

(for: ↑regurgitate)
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Somebody ——s something

(for: ↑retch)
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Somebody ——s something

(for: ↑vomit up)

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(Brit.)
VOMIT, retch, heave, gag; informal throw up, chunder, chuck up, hurl, spew, keck; Brit. informal honk; N. Amer. informal spit up, barf, upchuck, toss one's cookies.
sick

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be sick
1. To vomit
2. To be ill
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Main Entry:sick

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1) be ill
2) vomit

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be sick
: to vomit

I was sick [=vomited, threw up] several times.

The last time I ate oysters, I was violently sick. [=I vomited a lot]

Stop the car–I'm going to be sick. [=I'm going to throw up]

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Main Entry:sick

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be ˈsick idiom
(BrE) to bring food from your stomach back out through your mouth
Syn: vomit

I was sick three times in the night.

She had been

violently sick

.

Main entry:sickidiom

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