disgorge

English

Etymology

From Middle French desgorger.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɡɔːdʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ

Verb

disgorge (third-person singular simple present disgorges, present participle disgorging, simple past and past participle disgorged)

1. To vomit or spew, to discharge.
   • 1598-1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation

     This mountain when it rageth […] casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     They loudly laughed / To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:

     The set disgorges most of its passengers at Waverley [Edinburgh], so finding a table seat in the front car isn't a problem.

2. (law) To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
3. (oenology) To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise.

Derived terms

• disgorgement

Related terms

• gorge
• engorge

Translations

to vomit or spew

• Bulgarian: повръщам (bg) (povrǎštam), изхвърлям лава (izhvǎrljam lava)
• French: vomir (fr)
• German: ausspeien (de), ausspucken (de), auswerfen (de)
• Manx: aayioold
• Maori: whakaruaki

to surrender unwillingly

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• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 嘔出／呕出, ^{(please verify)} 呕出

See also

• regurgitate

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