stomach
The part of your body where food goes after you eat it and where it starts to be digested.
The muscular organ in the body where food is mixed with digestive juices and broken down before entering the intestines.
The front part of your body below your chest and above your hips.
The front part of the human body between the chest and the hips, containing the stomach organ and other parts.
The ability to accept or deal with something bad without feeling too upset or sick.
The mental or emotional ability to deal with something unpleasant or difficult without becoming upset or sickened.
To accept something bad or hard without showing you are upset.
To accept or put up with something unpleasant, difficult, or distasteful without protest.
- Base: stomach
- Plural: stomach, stomachs
- Base: stomach
- 3rd Person Singular: stomachs
- Present Participle: stomaching
- Past: stomached
- Past Participle: stomached
- Irregular 3rd person singular: stomachs Verb
can't stomach something
1Unable to accept something unpleasant
Not able to accept or deal with something bad or offensive.
- I can't stomach rude behavior.
- He can't stomach people who lie.
have a strong stomach
1Tolerate unpleasantness well
To be able to see or experience unpleasant things without feeling sick or upset.
- You need a strong stomach to work in a hospital emergency room.
- She has a strong stomach for scary movies.
turn someone's stomach
1Cause disgust or sickness
To make someone feel very disgusted or sick.
- The smell of rotten food turned my stomach.
- Violent movies turn her stomach.
on an empty stomach
1Having eaten no food recently
Without eating anything beforehand.
- Don't take this medicine on an empty stomach.
- He went jogging on an empty stomach and felt dizzy.
on an empty stomach
2Without having eaten recently
When you have not eaten anything before doing something.
- You shouldn't take this medicine on an empty stomach.
- Running on an empty stomach can make you feel weak.