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1 VERB If you vomit , food and drink comes back up from your stomach and out through your mouth. □ [V ] Any product made from cow's milk made him vomit. □ [V n] She began to vomit blood a few days before she died. □ [V n with up ] He vomited up all he had just eaten. ●  vom|it|ing N‑UNCOUNT □  Nausea, diarrhoea, and vomiting may accompany migraine.

2 N‑UNCOUNT Vomit is partly digested food and drink that has come back up from someone's stomach and out through their mouth.

voo|doo /vuː duː/ N‑UNCOUNT Voodoo is a form of religion involving magic which is practised by some people in the West Indies, especially Haiti.

vo|ra|cious /vəre I ʃəs, [AM ] vɔːr-/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] If you describe a person, or their appetite for something, as voracious , you mean that they want a lot of something. [LITERARY ] □  Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector. □  …the band's voracious appetite for fun. ●  vo|ra|cious|ly ADV □  He read voraciously.

vor|tex /vɔː ^r teks/ (vortexes or vortices /vɔː ^r t I siːz/)

1 N‑COUNT A vortex is a mass of wind or water that spins round so fast that it pulls objects down into its empty centre. □  The polar vortex is a system of wintertime winds.

2 N‑COUNT [usu sing] If you refer to a situation as a vortex , you feel that you are being forced into it without being able to prevent it. □  This decision propelled her into a vortex from which there seemed no escape.

vote ◆◆◆ /voʊ t/ (votes , voting , voted )

1 N‑COUNT A vote is a choice made by a particular person or group in a meeting or an election. □  He walked to the local polling centre to cast his vote. □  The government got a massive majority–well over 400 votes. □  Mr Reynolds was re-elected by 102 votes to 60.

2 N‑COUNT A vote is an occasion when a group of people make a decision by each person indicating his or her choice. The choice that most people support is accepted by the group. □ [+ on ] Why do you think we should have a vote on that? □  They took a vote and decided not to do it.

3 N‑SING The vote is the total number of votes or voters in an election, or the number of votes received or cast by a particular group. □  Opposition parties won about fifty-five per cent of the vote.

4 N‑SING If you have the vote in an election, or have a vote in a meeting, you have the legal right to indicate your choice. □  Before that, women did not have a vote at all.

5 VERB When you vote , you indicate your choice officially at a meeting or in an election, for example by raising your hand or writing on a piece of paper. □ [V ] Two-thirds of the electorate had the chance to vote in these elections. □ [V prep] It seems many people would vote for the government, if there was a new leader. □ [V to-inf] The residents of Leningrad voted to restore the city's original name of St Petersburg. □ [V by n to-inf/prep] The board of trustees voted by majority vote to remove the director. □ [V num + for ] The council voted 9:8 for a five percent tax increase. ●  vot|ing N‑UNCOUNT □  Voting began about two hours ago.

6 VERB If you vote a particular political party or leader, or vote yes or no , you make that choice with the vote that you have. □ [V n] 52.5% of those questioned said they'd vote Labour. □ [V yes ] A single candidate is put forward and the people vote yes or no. [Also V no ]

7 VERB If people vote someone a particular title, they choose that person to have that title. □ [V n n] His class voted him the man 'who had done the most for Yale.'.

8 → see also block vote