stomach

Definition

  • noun: the organ in your body where food goes and begins to be digested after you swallow it
  • noun: a dilatation of the alimentary canal of a vertebrate communicating anteriorly with the esophagus and posteriorly with the duodenum
  • verb: to accept or experience (something unpleasant) without becoming sick, upset, etc.
  • verb: to take offense at
  • often used before another noun

Examples

  • Take this medication 'on an empty stomach'. [=when your stomach is empty because you have not eaten for a time]

  • When I had the flu, just the thought of eating made me 'sick to my stomach'. [='nauseous']

  • She felt a flutter in 'the pit of her stomach' when he walked through the door.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,...asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful\Nit is known as the Draught of the Living Dead. Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat\Nand it will save you from most poisons (..)
    2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone