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throw up

• vomit.
• "I leaned over and threw up again"
Similar: vomit, retch, cough up, bring up, regurgitate, heave, gag, be sick, get sick, puke, chunder, chuck up, hurl, spew, do the technicolor yawn, keck, honk, sick up, vom, boke, spit up, barf, upchuck, toss one's cookies, blow chunks,
• abandon or give up something, especially one's job.
• "why has he thrown up a promising career in politics?"
Similar: give up, abandon, relinquish, resign (from), leave, eschew, abdicate, quit, chuck, pack in, jack in,
• produce something and bring it to notice.
• "he saw the prayers of the Church as a living and fruitful tradition that threw up new ideas"
• erect a building or structure hastily.
• "on several sites temporary wooden structures had been thrown up"


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