barfed

Lost one's lunch

Barfed is the past tense of barf, meaning to vomit: He barfed all over the back seat.

The word is informal and slightly comic—less clinical than vomited, less crude than puked.

It extends to figurative disgust: My computer barfed when I tried to open the file.

vomiting

puked

Expelled stomach contents

retched · gagged · heaved · spewed · chundered · ralphed · yakked · disgorged · expelled · ejected

nausea

queasy

Mildly sick to stomach

gagging · bilious · woozy · lightheaded · queasiness · nauseous

illness

hangover

Post-drinking illness

overindulged · bug · virus · fever · dehydrated · hospitalized

disgust

revolted

Rose in opposition

horrified · recoiled

slang

bombed

Failed spectacularly, utterly

flopped · botched · crashed · fumbled

Opposites
digestive direction

barfedswallowed

Passed through throat

ate · ingested · consumed · gulped · devoured

stomach retention

barfedkept down

Held in check

held down · digested · retained · stomached

Phrases
Family

barf, barfing, barfs

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG