disgorge
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French desgorger.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]disgorge (third-person singular simple present disgorges, present participle disgorging, simple past and past participle disgorged)
- 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.
- 1982 December 11, “Help Make News”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 14:
- GCN's local reporter needs help keeping up w/ the masses of information disgorged by our busy world.
- 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.
- 1598-1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation
- (law) To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
- (oenology) To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to vomit or spew
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to surrender unwillingly
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