- stomach
- [[t]stʌ̱mək[/t]]
♦♦♦stomachs, stomaching, stomached1) N-COUNT Your stomach is the organ inside your body where food is digested before it moves into the intestines.
He had an upset stomach...
My stomach is completely full.
Syn:2) N-COUNT: oft poss N You can refer to the front part of your body below your waist as your stomach.The children lay down on their stomachs.
...stomach muscles.
Syn:3) N-COUNT: oft poss N If the front part of your body below your waist feels uncomfortable because you are feeling worried or frightened, you can refer to it as your stomach.His stomach was in knots.
4) N-COUNT If you say that someone has a strong stomach, you mean that they are not disgusted by things that disgust most other people.Surgery often demands actual physical strength, as well as the possession of a strong stomach.
5) VERB: with brd-neg If you cannot stomach something, you cannot accept it because you dislike it or disapprove of it.[V n/-ing] I could never stomach the cruelty involved in the wounding of animals.
6) PHRASE: PHR after v If you do something on an empty stomach, you do it without having eaten.Avoid drinking on an empty stomach.
7) PHRASE: with neg, V inflects, PHR for n, PHR to-inf If you have no stomach for something, you do not have the courage to do it.America has no stomach for a fight...
The surgeon didn't have the stomach to look at Kelly's face.
8) PHRASE: v-link PHR (feelings) If you say that you feel sick to your stomach about something, you mean that you feel very angry or upset about it.She felt sick to her stomach just thinking about it.
9) PHR-ERG: V inflects If you say that something turns your stomach or makes your stomach turn, you mean that it is so unpleasant or offensive that it makes you feel sick.The true facts will turn your stomach...
I saw the shots of what happened on television and my stomach just turned over.
English dictionary. 2008.
