ungorge

English

Etymology

un- +‎ gorge

Verb

ungorge (third-person singular simple present ungorges, present participle ungorging, simple past and past participle ungorged)

1. To relieve by vomiting.
   • 1601, Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington:

     Well, Phoebus, well, drink on, I say, drink on; But when thou dost ungorge thee, grant me this, Thou pour thy poisons on the head of John.

   • 1634, John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life:

     For gluttonizing his ore-charged chest, He neither can ungorge, nor yet digest , Till surfitted to death, he loaths it more Than ere he did embrace, or love before:

   • 1968, Robert Wool, A ceremony of innocence, page 264:

     It was as though he had vomited them: immediately, they surprised him; they also brought him a quick sense of relief and dread, relief in the way vomiting can relieve, can ungorge and ease and suddenly make breathing easier; and dread, that more gagging and painful heaving was to come before the night would pass.

2. (figurative) To purge; to empty out by removing something that should not be there.
   • 1864, John KingJohn King, Lectures Upon Jonah: Delivered at York In the Year of Our Lord 1594, page 125:

     They thought evil, 'God disposed it to good;' they, to ungorge themselves of that venomous malice which the prosperity of Joseph, conceived from his dreams, instilled into their hearts;

   • 1882 December, Sidney Lanier, “Individuality”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 25, number 2, page 223:

     Or why not plunge thy blades about Some maggot politician throng, Swarming to parcel out The body of the land, and rout The maw-conventicle, and ungorge Wrong?

   • 1900, Harvey Buxon, Our Remarkable Fledger, page 17:

     The boy laid his slate and book down on the platform and proceeded to ungorge himself, Mr Fledger's hands being spread out in readiness to receive the spoil. There emerged first a double handful of marbles, some of which spilt themselves over and rolled about the schoolroom floor, to be picked up and appropriated by the watchful pupils.

3. To discharge or relinquish.
   • 1976, Albert W. Kayper-Mensah, Akwaaba, page 9:

     Lorries come, ungorge their loads.

   • 2004, Red Jordan Arobateau, The Big Change, page 79:

     It was not like the secret sadistic meaningless experiment operations performed in Nazi Germany under the cloak of Military Defense, or like the nuns who give birth clandestinely, fathered by the priests, who have fornicated with them behind the gray stone fortress of the convent; who bury those infants that turn to skeletons beneath ivy covered walls of the nunnery, preserved till the centuries ungorge these small bodies, remains of dozens and dozens of live-birth of babies beneath brick and stone, preserved relics.

   • 2010, Nita Farrier, The Grande Tour, page 248:

     Several packages are still on the way, however, and the letter and greeting card mail have still to be ungorged.