An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
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.
Pride, haughtiness.
Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […]
To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”). Largely displaced native Old English maga, whence Moder...
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To be angry.
Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?
To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.