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STOMACH
stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket
(noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
abdomen, venter, stomach, belly
(noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
stomach
(noun) an appetite for food; “exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner”
stomach
(noun) an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness; “he had no stomach for a fight”
digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant; “I cannot bear his constant criticism”; “The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks”; “he learned to tolerate the heat”; “She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage”
stomach
(verb) bear to eat; “He cannot stomach raw fish”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
stomach (countable and uncountable, plural stomaches)
An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
(informal) The belly.
Synonyms: belly, abdomen, tummy, bouk (obsolete), gut, guts, maw (archaic)
(uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
(obsolete) Appetite.
(figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
Verb
stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)
(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.
Synonyms
• (to tolerate): brook, put up with; See also tolerate
• (to be angry)
• (to resent): See also dislike
Anagrams
• Satchmo
Source: Wiktionary
Stom"ach, n. Etym: [OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus, fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a mouth, any outlet or entrance.]
1. (Anat.)
Definition: An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. Shak.
3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak.
4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. Spenser. This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Locke.
5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.] He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. Shak. Stomach pump (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it.
– Stomach tube (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach.
– Stomach worm (Zoöl.), the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
Stom"ach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stomached; p. pr. & vb. n. Stomaching.] Etym: [Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be angry or vexed at a thing.]
1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton.
2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]
Stom"ach, v. i.
Definition: To be angry. [Obs.] Hooker.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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