disgorge

English

Etymology

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)

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

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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

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