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Definition of Stomach

Stomach

  1. An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
  2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
  3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
  4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
  5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
  6. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
  7. To bear without repugnance; to brook.
  8. To be angry.

Stomach Quotations

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson
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Stomach Translations

stomach in Afrikaans is maag
stomach in Danish is mave
stomach in Dutch is maag
stomach in French is estomac, stomacale
stomach in German is Magen
stomach in Italian is ventricolo
stomach in Norwegian is mave
stomach in Swedish is mage

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