Throw up has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Noun
Verb
1
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"After drinking too much, the students vomited"
"He purged continuously"
"The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up.
Example Sentences
"After drinking too much, the students vomited"
verb
"He purged continuously"
verb
"The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
verb
Broader Terms (hypernyms)