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 stomach can be distensible.
- My stomach is stuffed with pizza.
- The frog's stomach was distensible.
- Alcohol also affects the stomach and the brain.
- The acids in the stomach increases this solubility.
- The stomach is acidic, the intestines are alkaline.
- He was wounded in both the stomach and in the shoulder.
- The soul cannot be ministered to till the stomach is appeased.
- The enzyme is contained in the lining of the stomach and in the liver.
- The liver lies to the right of the stomach and overlies the gallbladder.
- This leads to damage of the stomach lining and loss of nutrition to the body.
- 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.