honk
the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)
• Hypernyms:
cry
1. make a loud noise
- The horns of the taxis blared
• Syn:
blare, beep, claxon, toot
• Derivationally related forms:
toot (for: toot), claxon (for: claxon), beep (for: beep), beeper (for: beep), honker
• Hypernyms:
sound, go
• Hyponyms:
tootle
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
2. use the horn of a car
• Syn:
claxon
• Derivationally related forms:
claxon (for: claxon), honker
• Hypernyms:
make noise, resound, noise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- After drinking too much, the students vomited
- He purged continuously
- The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
• Syn:
vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick,
cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke,
puke, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck,
regurgitate, throw up
• Ant:
keep down (for: vomit)
• Derivationally related forms:
regurgitation (for: regurgitate), spewer (for: spew), puke (for: puke), puking (for: puke), retch (for: retch), disgorgement (for: disgorge), sick (for: sick), vomit (for: vomit), vomiter (for: vomit), vomiting (for: vomit)
• Hypernyms:
excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something (for: throw up)
- Somebody ----s something (for: regurgitate)
- Somebody ----s something (for: retch)
- Somebody ----s something (for: vomit up)
4. cry like a goose
- The geese were honking
• Syn:
cronk
• Derivationally related forms:
honker
• Hypernyms:
utter, emit, let out, let loose
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
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