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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

vomitar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bo-mi-tar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vomit/ˈvɒm.ɪt/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El niño se sintió mal y empezó a vomitar."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To eject matter from the stomach through the mouth; to throw up.

    "He felt terribly sick and began to vomit after eating the spoiled seafood."
As noun
  1. 1

    Matter that has been vomited from the stomach.

    "The cleaner had to clean up the vomit on the pavement."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'vomere', meaning 'to spew or throw up', which entered English in the late 15th century. It traces back to the Proto-Indo-European root *wem-, denoting the physical action of spitting or discharging contents from the stomach.

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