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Dry heave

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dry heave"

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vomitingnoun(pathology) The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
retchingnounThe act of one who retches.
vomit upverb(slang) To vomit.
retchesnounAn unsuccessful effort to vomit.
barfingnoun(US, colloquial) Vomit.
vomittingnoun
pukingnounThe act of one who pukes or vomits.
throw upverb(intransitive, transitive, now informal, bacteriology) To vomit.
vomitnounThe act of regurgitating.
vomitedverb(intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
diarrheic(medicine, rare) Having diarrhea; diarrheal.
diarrhoeanoun(Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of diarrhea. [(medicine) A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very soft or watery bowel movements.]
diarrheanoun(medicine) A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very soft or watery bowel movements.
vomitusnoun(medicine) Vomit (the product of an emesis).
barfedverb(US, colloquial) To vomit.
pukedverb(colloquial, ambitransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
convulsesverb(intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.
diarrhealnounThat causes, or is associated with diarrhea.
retchedverb(transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
emesisnoun(pathology) The act or process of vomiting.

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