stomaching

Pluralstomachings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of stomach.

   Fans were having trouble stomaching yet another losing season.

   Stomaching the awful taste, she finished the bitter medicine.

   Note

   In current use the participle carries one meaning, putting up with something, and it takes a direct object: stomaching an insult, stomaching the taste. The same spelling serves as a gerund (stomaching such rudeness takes patience). Older senses of the verb meant to be angry, to resent, and to turn someone's stomach. Those meanings echo in the old noun for resentment and the "sickening" adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Causing nausea or disgust; making a person feel sick or revolted.

   The stomaching odor of spoiled fish drove everyone from the kitchen.

   Medical students must overcome the stomaching details of their first dissection.

   Similarnauseating, sickening, revolting, disgusting, repulsive

   Oppositeappetizing, pleasant

3. 3
   nounobsolete

   Resentment or lasting anger harbored against another person.

   Note

   An obsolete noun for grudge-bearing, and one that could be counted. The Rheims Bible of 1582 lists "contentions, emulations, stomachings, dissensions" side by side, each a plural kind of strife. Modern English says resentment or grudges instead. Keep stomachings for quoting or imitating early modern prose, where it sits naturally among other words for quarreling.

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