as in to vomit
to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth
the movie's in-your-face violence made us want to barf
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Samantha barfs up some black bile, and Zoe’s sycophants eat her skin at a dinner party in a bit that briefly frames her as a Christ figure but doesn’t go anywhere.
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Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
Particularly upsetting and painful are the scenes where Bloom binges and purges, swallowing a candy bar before barfing it back down the toilet.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024
Like poop in the living room, pee on the couch and barf on the rug.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
Screaming in hieroglyphs, tearing space open, barfing lava and pissing neon.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
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Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
Particularly upsetting and painful are the scenes where Bloom binges and purges, swallowing a candy bar before barfing it back down the toilet.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024
Like poop in the living room, pee on the couch and barf on the rug.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
Screaming in hieroglyphs, tearing space open, barfing lava and pissing neon.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
See All Example Sentences for barf
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“Barf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barf. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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