Meaning

9 senses
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up.

  2. (ambitransitive, informal)To vomit.

    The baby threw up all over my shirt.

    That cat is always throwing up hairballs.

  3. (transitive)To produce or reveal something new or unexpected.

    This system has thrown up a few problems.

  4. (transitive)To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.

    The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.

  5. (dated, transitive)To erect, particularly hastily.

  6. (ambitransitive)To give up, abandon something.

    оста́витьostávitʹ, бро́ситьbrósitʹ, отказа́тьсяotkazátʹsja

  7. (transitive)To display a gang sign using the hands.

  8. (dated, transitive)To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.

  9. (obsolete, transitive)To give special prominence to a line or lines.

More definitions
  • eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Examples

221 sentences
  1. I feel like throwing up.

    Мене зараз вирве.

    ruМеня сейчас вырвет.

    deIch könnte kotzen.

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  2. I threw up.

    Я виригав.

    ruМеня вырвало.

    deIch habe gekotzt.

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  3. It makes me want to throw up.

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  4. I feel like I might throw up.

    ruМеня тошнит.

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  5. Tom is throwing up in the bathroom.

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to give up, abandon:

Origin

The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idio

The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).

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Forms

throws up, throwing up, threw up, thrown up
Base formthrow up · to throw up
3rd person singularthrows up
Present participlethrowing up
Past simplethrew up
Past participlethrown up

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theythrow up
he, she, itthrows up

Past simpleLesson

all personsthrew up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave thrown up
he, she, ithas thrown up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill throw up

Phrasal verbs

12 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

25 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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