THROW UP - 5 definitions found
throw up v 1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) throw up verb Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to raise quickly 2. give up, quit <the urge…to throw up all intellectual work — Norman Mailer> 3. to build hurriedly <new houses thrown up almost overnight> 4. vomit 5. to bring forth ; produce 6. to make distinct especially by contrast ; cause to stand out 7. to mention repeatedly by way of reproach intransitive verb vomit Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary throw up 1. When someone throws up, they vomit. (INFORMAL) She said she had thrown up after reading reports of the trial. PHRASAL VERB: V P 2. If something throws up dust, stones, or water, when it moves or hits the ground, it causes them to rise up into the air. If it had hit the Earth, it would have made a crater 100 miles across and thrown up an immense cloud of dust. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 3. To throw up a particular person or thing means to produce them or cause them to become noticeable. (mainly BRIT) The political struggle threw up a strong leader... PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms throw up 1. Resign, lay down, give up, demit. 2. Emit, eject, send up. 3. Vomit, disgorge. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 103 Moby Thesaurus words for "throw up": abandon, abdicate, abjure, acknowledge defeat, barf, be seasick, be sick, boost, bring up, buoy up, cast up, cease, cede, chuck up, cry quits, desist from, disgorge, dispense with, dispose of, do without, drop, dump, egest, elevate, erect, escalate, feed the fish, forgo, forswear, gag, get along without, get rid of, give away, give over, give up, hand over, have done with, heave, heave the gorge, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, jerk up, keck, kiss good-bye, knock up, lay down, leave off, levitate, lift, lift up, lob, loft, make a sacrifice, part with, perk up, puke, quitclaim, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, recant, regurgitate, reject, relinquish, render up, renounce, resign, retch, retract, rise, roughcast, roughhew, run up, sacrifice, set up, sick up, sky, spare, spew, stick up, surrender, swear off, up, upbuoy, upcast, upchuck, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow, vacate, vomit, waive, yield |
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