thrown up

Ejected from stomach

Thrown up is the past participle of throw up, meaning to vomit: The child had thrown up twice before morning.

It also applies to things hastily constructed or erected: a barricade thrown up overnight, houses thrown up by developers.

Something thrown up by a process is produced or revealed by it: The investigation has thrown up some unexpected findings.

Related

upchuck · heave · dry heaving · hurled · retch · blow chunks · projected · barf · surfaced · expelled · disgorged · manifested · erupted · gag · exposed · bile · hastily · constructed

Opposites
digestive direction

thrown upswallowed

Passed through throat

ingested · kept down · held down · eaten · consumed

CONSTRUCTION (for "thrown up" meaning hastily built)

thrown uptorn down

demolished · knocked down · razed · dismantled · pulled down

vertical motion

thrown upthrown down

Forcefully cast downward

dropped · caught · lowered · set down · pulled down

Family

throw, overthrow, throw up, thrown, throwing, throws, overthrown, thrower, overthrowing

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG