Meaning of stomach | Babel Free

Definitions

1. stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
2. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
   countable, uncountable
3. A muscular bag-like part of the alimentary canal between the esophagus and small intestine. It stores and churns food and produces gastric juice, which partly digests food and kills germs.
4. The belly.
   countable, informal, uncountable
5. Pride, haughtiness.
   obsolete, uncountable
6. A desire for food or drink:appetite, hunger, taste, thirst.
7. An appetite.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
8. To put up with:abide, accept, bear, brook, endure, go, stand (for), suffer, support, sustain, swallow, take, tolerate, withstand.
9. A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
10. a pain in the belly. maagpyn أَلَم في المَعِدَه стомашна болка dor de barriga bolení břicha die Magenschmerzen (pl.) mavepine στομαχόπονος dolor de barriga kõhuvalu شكم درد vatsakipu mal de ventre כְּאֵב בֶּטֶן पेट दर्द bol u želucu gyomorfájás sakit perut magaverkur/-pína mal di stomaco/pancia 腹痛 위통 pilvo skausmas vēdergraizes; sāpes vēderā sakit perut buikpijn vondt i magen ból brzucha dor de barriga durere de burtă боль в животе bolenie brucha bolečine v želodcu stomakobolja magont อาการปว...
11. The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
    countable, uncountable
12. The enlarged, saclike portion of the digestive tract, one of the principal organs of digestion, located in vertebrates between the esophagus and the small intestine.
13. The abdomen or belly.
14. An appetite for food.
15. A desire or inclination, especially for something difficult or unpleasant: had no stomach for quarrels.
16. Courage; spirit.
17. Obsolete Pride.
    Obsolete

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Examples

“Our stomachs and livers have an enzyme known as alcohol dehydrogenase that breaks down ethanol to make it less toxic for our bodies, said Atlanta gastroenterologist Dr. Preston Stewart.”

“A new study suggests people taking popular injected medications for weight loss, including Wegovy, Ozempic, Saxenda and Victoza, may be at higher risk for serious digestive problems such as stomach paralysis, pancreatitis, and bowel obstructions, compared with those taking other types of weight loss medications.”

“Why did you hit me in the stomach?”

“Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […]”

“He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;”

“This sort of crying[…] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.”

“a good stomach for roast beef”

“You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.”

“HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe? EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.”

“If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.”

“I have no stomach for a fight today.”

“That he which hath no ſtomack to this fight, / Let him depart, his Paſport ſhall be made,”

“At the moment, I don’t know what stomach there would be for stories about societies falling apart, so I’m not working away on one of those.”

“[…] Mr. Sedley looking grand, with a crush opera-hat on one side of his head and his hand in the stomach of a voluminous white waistcoat.”

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