stomach

The organ inside your body where food goes after you swallow it and begins to be broken down.

• My stomach feels full.
• Take this medicine on an empty stomach.
• Acid in the stomach helps break down food.

Common phrases: empty stomach, stomach acid, stomach ulcer, upset stomach

The front part of your body below your chest.

• He rubbed his stomach.
• She lay on her stomach to read.
• The ball hit me in the stomach.

Similar words: belly, abdomen, tummy

Common phrases: flat stomach, on your stomach, stomach muscles, hit someone's stomach

The desire or courage to face something difficult or unpleasant.

• I have no stomach for a fight.
• She had little stomach for office politics.
• After years of war, the country lost its stomach for battle.

How to use it: have no/little stomach for something (I have no stomach for another argument.)

Similar words: appetite, inclination, desire

Common phrases: no stomach for, stomach for something, little stomach for

To accept or bear something unpleasant without becoming too upset or physically sick.

• I can't stomach this food.
• He couldn't stomach another evening of their arguments.
• How can you stomach such cruelty?

How to use it: cannot stomach something (I cannot stomach his cruel jokes.); cannot stomach doing something (She couldn't stomach watching the operation.)

Similar words: stand, bear, tolerate, put up with

Common phrases: cannot stomach something, stomach the thought, stomach the sight