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throw up

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phrasal verb

  • 1Vomit.

    ‘I leaned over and threw up again’
    • ‘Of the four of us at least one has been throwing up or coughing all through the night pretty much constantly.’
    • ‘I knocked on the door gently, but it seemed that Andrea was sick and was throwing up.’
    • ‘Sven ate about half, out of pure hunger, but then felt sick and threw up into the garbage can.’
    • ‘He coughed violently and promptly threw up on the sparkling floor.’
    • ‘I'd gone no more than a few metres when I stopped and my stomach gave a familiar heave and I threw up.’
    • ‘The smell of the vegetarian food makes him sick and he feels like throwing up.’
    • ‘The Fair is the one place where you can throw up, and no one thinks you're drunk or sick.’
    • ‘Sitting at the wheel of his car trying to finish an oversized sandwich becomes too much for him and he throws up through his window.’
    • ‘If you're going to push a toddler on a playground swing until the child throws up, push him from behind, not in front.’
    • ‘She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.’
    vomit, retch
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    1. 1.1throw something up, throw up somethingVomit something one has eaten or drunk.
      ‘I made it as far as the bathroom and threw up my dinner’
      • ‘And then they're sick and kind of throw it up.’
      • ‘As soon as I ate a bag of my favourite crisps, I would feel the urge and need to just bring myself to throw them up again.’

  • 2throw something up, throw up somethingAbandon or give up something, especially one's job.

    • ‘why has he thrown up a promising career in politics?’
    give up, abandon, relinquish, resign, resign from, leave, eschew, abdicate
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  • 3throw something up, throw up somethingProduce something and bring it to notice.

    ‘he saw the prayers of the Church as a living and fruitful tradition that threw up new ideas’
    • ‘My source explained the headline-writing process: ‘Sometimes the germ of an idea is thrown up and kicked into shape by the executive-level night editor on the back bench.’’
    • ‘The consultation process on the Water Bill which will go to the Scottish parliament is drawing to a close and some interesting ideas have been thrown up.’
    • ‘Interesting ideas were thrown up on forging identities.’
    • ‘I seem to remember we had this discussion before several times, and back then some interesting ideas were thrown up which I can't remember exactly (that's what happens if you stay here long enough).’
    • ‘That's why this stupid idea has been thrown up now.’

  • 4throw something up, throw up somethingErect a building or structure hastily.

    • ‘on several sites temporary wooden structures had been thrown up’