sick up

Eject stomach contents

Sick up is British informal for vomit—to bring food back up from the stomach: The baby sicked up all over my shirt.

The phrase is common in casual speech, especially when describing children or pets being ill.

Americans would typically say throw up.

vomiting

regurgitate

Expel swallowed matter

  • retchGag involuntarily
  • heaveForceful lift or throw
  • gagMouth restraint or jest

spew · puke · barf · upchuck · hurl · disgorge · eject · expel · emesis · queasy

nausea

queasy

Mildly sick to stomach

airsick · upset stomach · queasiness · gag · retch · heave · nauseous · woozy · green around the gills · vertigo

illness

food poisoning

Sickness from contaminated eating

bug · fever · infection · norovirus · gastric · foodborne · contamination · unwell · poorly · bedridden

intoxication

drunk

Impaired by alcohol

sloshed · boozy · tipsy · inebriated · hungover · binge drinking · overindulgence · alcohol · liquor · party

Categories
Opposites
digestive direction

sick upswallow

Send down the throat

keep down · digest · ingest · eat · retain

Family

sick, up, sicks, sicked, sicking, sickly, sickness, sicken, sickened

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