eructate

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ēructātus, from the verb ēructō.

Verb

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eructate (third-person singular simple present eructates, present participle eructating, simple past and past participle eructated)

  1. (formal, intransitive) To burp; to belch.
    • 1850, Erastus Edgerton Marcy, John Charles Peters, Otto Füllgraff, The Elements of a New Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 400:
      Pain in the right side of the throat, as from an ulcery sensation or as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching and moving the neck.

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Latin

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Verb

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ērūctāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ērūctō

Spanish

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Verb

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eructate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of eructar combined with te