stomach

IPA: stˈʌmʌk

noun

  • An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
  • (informal) The belly.
  • (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
  • (obsolete) Appetite.
  • (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
  • The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.

verb

  • (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
  • (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.
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Examples of "stomach" in Sentences

  • The soul cannot be ministered to till the stomach is appeased.
  • I bet this vague ookiness in my stomach is an announcement of hunger too long ignored.
  • I had the clam chowder & found it delicious … I did not get sick and normally my stomach is the first to react!
  • The pain isn't too bad during the day, but has kept me up a bit at night, and my stomach is a bit upset from the antibiotics.
  • This morning, I have not even had breakfast, my stomach is a stormy sea, and all I seem to desire is whiskey and a pack of Camel's.
  • A tube feeding into the stomach is a gastrostomy tube, or G-tube; a tube feeding into the intestines is a gastrojejunostomy tube, or GJ-tube.
  • We notice catarrh of the stomach, ulcerative gastritis, to which patients often succumb after twenty-five years of _bad stomach_; these are the
  • Mmm, icy delicious orange and strawberry smoothie for breakfast before going to work, and bento when my stomach is able to take solid food at work!
  • If the fainting have been caused by _disordered stomach_, it may be necessary to stop the supplies, and give the stomach, for a day or two, but little to do; a fast will frequently prevent the necessity of giving medicine.
  • I was then taken to a doctor, who at once requested me to stop working, and to take a _complete rest_, but not for the stomach, as he prescribed a severe and exacting master to stimulate the _tired and overworked stomach_ to _renewed life_, and so give the nerves plenty of pure food, as they were in need of same.

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