Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To vomit.
- To vomit; belch forth; vent.
- noun Vomit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To throw out; to vomit.
- noun obsolete Vomit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
vomit ,spew out. - noun archaic
Vomit ;vomiting .
Etymologies
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From Middle French par- + brake.
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Examples
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O daughter mine, thou hast begun to put thy hand to the plough of virtue, leaving the parbreak of mortal sin; it behoves thee, then, to persevere, to receive the reward of thy labour, which thy soul endures, choosing to bridle its youth, that it may not run to be a member of the devil.
Letters of Catherine Benincasa of Siena Catherine 1363
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9 Her filthy parbreak all the place defiled has. parbreak > vomit
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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