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stomach

/ˈstʌmək/ noun A2
  1. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The belly. (countable, informal, uncountable) · Why did you hit me in the stomach?
  3. A desire, an appetite (for something abstract). (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · I have no stomach for a fight today.
  4. The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach. (countable, uncountable)

Plural stomachs

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Danglars’ stomach felt so empty, that it seemed as if it would be impossible ever to fill it again; still he had patience for another half-hour, which appeared to him like a century.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1080 · C1
Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, “I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 95 · B2
When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 65 · B2
“It’ll ruin her teeth and stomach.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 86 · C1

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