stomach
♦ stom|ach /st'ʌmək/ (stomachs stomaching stomached)
1 [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.
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.
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, V n/-ing
If you cannot stomach something, you cannot accept it because you dislike it or disapprove of it.
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] 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.
8
butterflies in your stomach: see butterflystom|ach ache (stomach aches)
also stomachache
[N-VAR]
If you have a stomach-ache, you have a pain in your stomach.
1 [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.
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.
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, V n/-ing
If you cannot stomach something, you cannot accept it because you dislike it or disapprove of it.
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] 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.
8
butterflies in your stomach: see butterflystom|ach ache (stomach aches)
also stomachache
[N-VAR]
If you have a stomach-ache, you have a pain in your stomach.