[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.
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The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the
affront. --L'Estrange.
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The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his
counselors and dictators, though he stomach it.
--Milton.
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2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]
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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.
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2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good
stomach for roast beef. --Shak.
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3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
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He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart. --Shak.
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4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful
obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.]
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Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.
--Spenser.
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This sort of crying proceeding from pride,
obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault
lies, must be bent. --Locke.
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5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.]
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He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach. --Shak.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. i.
To be angry. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "stomach":
abatis, abdomen, abide, abomasum, accept, aftertaste, anus,
appendix, appetite, bay window, bear, bear with, beard, beerbelly,
belly, bitter, blind gut, blink at, bowels, brain, brains,
breadbasket, brook, canine appetite, cecum, chitterlings,
cockscomb, colon, condone, connive at, corporation, countenance,
craving, craw, crop, desire, diaphragm, digest, disregard, down,
drought, dryness, duodenum, eat, embonpoint, emptiness,
empty stomach, endocardium, endure, entrails, first stomach,
flavor, foregut, giblets, gizzard, go, gullet, gust, gut, guts,
hankering, haslet, have, hear of, heart, hindgut, hollow hunger,
honeycomb stomach, hunger, hungriness, ignore, inclination,
indulge, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine,
inwards, jejunum, kidney, kidneys, kishkes, large intestine, liver,
liver and lights, longing, lung, manyplies, marrow, maw, midgut,
midriff, need, omasum, overlook, palate, paunch, perineum, pocket,
pocket the affront, polydipsia, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium,
pump, pusgut, put up with, pylorus, rectum, relish, rennet bag,
reticulum, rumen, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness,
second stomach, smack, small intestine, sour, spare tire, spleen,
stand, stand for, stick, suffer, swagbelly, swallow,
swallow an insult, sweet, sweet tooth, sweetbread, take, tang,
tapeworm, taste, third stomach, thirst, thirstiness, ticker,
tolerance, tolerate, tongue, tooth, torment of Tantalus, tripe,
tripes, tum-tum, tummy, turn aside provocation, underbelly, venter,
ventripotence, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, wink at, works,
yearning