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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion;
[syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket]

2. the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis;
[syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly]

3. an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness;
- Example: "he had no stomach for a fight"

4. an appetite for food;
- Example: "exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner"


VERB (2)

1. bear to eat;
- Example: "He cannot stomach raw fish"

2. put up with something or somebody unpleasant;
- Example: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"
- Example: "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"
- Example: "he learned to tolerate the heat"
- Example: "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
[syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stomached; p. pr. & vb. n. Stomaching.] [Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be angry or vexed at a thing.] 1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stomach \Stom"ach\, n. [OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus, fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a mouth, any outlet or entrance.] 1. (Anat.) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. [1913 Webster] He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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 (Zool.), the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. i. To be angry. [Obs.] --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stomach n 1: an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket] 2: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly] 3: an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness; "he had no stomach for a fight" 4: an appetite for food; "exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner" v 1: bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish" 2: 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" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]