Illustrative Context

He ate something bad and vomited.

Target Sense

• The most generic term for humans vomiting (i.e. regurgitating the contents of the stomach). Particular attention is needed with register for this meaning: as per the IE-CoR policy guidelines, target the most neutral register term, neither too formal or euphemistic, nor too informal or vulgar.
• Note that in some varieties of English, the most neutral register term is not in fact vomit but, for example be sick (e.g. in the target variety in IE-CoR, namely British English in the lexical usage in England) or throw up.
• Avoid marked higher register terms, e.g. formal or specifically medical ones.
• Avoid marked euphemisms, unless an original euphemism has lost that connotation and has since become the neutral, direct term.
• Many languages have multiple informal, slang or vulgar ‘synonyms’: avoid all such terms.
• The target lexeme may be morphologically complex in many languages, as for example in Slavic.