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vomit up |
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vomit something up to bring up something from the stomach by vomiting. The dog vomited the chocolate cake up. Fido vomited up the rabbit. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Cronos is forced to vomit up the children he had swallowed, and these with Zeus divide the universe between them, like a human estate. To these observations I may add, on the high authority of Azara, that the Carrancha feeds on worms, shells, slugs, grasshoppers, and frogs; that it destroys young lambs by tearing the umbilical cord; and that it pursues the Gallinazo, till that bird is compelled to vomit up the carrion it may have recently gorged. |
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