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Vomit

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

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Broader term 15

Curative 76% connected

Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

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Cure 76% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

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Egest 76% connected

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin,…

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Ejection 76% connected

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Excrement 76% connected

Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges;…

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Excreta 76% connected

Matters to be excreted.

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Excrete 76% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

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Excretion 76% connected

The act of excreting.

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Expulsion 76% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Projection 76% connected

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Reflex 76% connected

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

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Remedy 76% connected

That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for t…

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Therapeutic 76% connected

Alt. of Therapeutical

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Narrower term 4

Haematemesis 76% connected

Same as Hematemesis.

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Hematemesis 76% connected

A vomiting of blood.

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Ipecac 76% connected

An abbreviation of Ipecacuanha, and in more frequent use.

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Rumination 76% connected

The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.

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Derivationally related 4

Cat 74% connected

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger th…

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Cat 74% connected

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger th…

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Sicken 74% connected

To make sick; to disease.

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Sicken 74% connected

To make sick; to disease.

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Synonym 21

Cast 92% connected

of Cast

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Cat 92% connected

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger th…

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Chuck 92% connected

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

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Disgorge 92% connected

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…

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Disgorgement 92% connected

The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged.

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Emesis 92% connected

A vomiting.

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Emetic 92% connected

Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.

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Honk 92% connected

The cry of a wild goose.

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Nauseant 92% connected

A substance which produces nausea.

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Puke 92% connected

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

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Puking 92% connected

of Puke

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Purge 92% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

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Regorge 92% connected

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.

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Regurgitate 92% connected

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

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Regurgitation 92% connected

The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance

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Retch 92% connected

To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

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Sick 92% connected

Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

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Spew 92% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

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Spue 92% connected

See Spew.

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Vomiting 92% connected

of Vomit

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Vomitive 92% connected

Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

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