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4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. i.
To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make
restitution.
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See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths
Into the sea. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgorged}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Disgorging}.] [F. d['e]gorger, earlier desgorger;
pref. d['e]-, des- (L. dis-) + gorge. See {Gorge}.]
1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit;
to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the
mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from
a confined place.
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This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth
huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. --Hakluyt.
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They loudly laughed
To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny
draught. --Dryden.
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2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized
and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender;
as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disgorge
v 1: cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or
over; "spill the beans all over the table" [syn: {spill},
{shed}]
2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
him last night" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit up}, {purge}, {cast},
{sick}, {cat}, {be sick}, {regorge}, {retch}, {puke}, {barf},
{spew}, {spue}, {chuck}, {upchuck}, {honk}, {regurgitate},
{throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "disgorge":
abandon, abjure, barf, be seasick, be sick, belch, blow open,
blow out, break out, bring up, burst forth, burst out, cast,
cast forth, cede, chuck up, debouch, decant, discharge, disembogue,
dispense with, dispose of, do without, drop, dump, egest,
ejaculate, eject, eruct, erupt, exhaust, expel, extravasate,
feed the fish, forgo, forswear, gag, get along without, get rid of,
give away, give up, have done with, heave, heave the gorge,
hurl forth, irrupt, jet, keck, kiss good-bye, make a sacrifice,
outpour, part with, pour, pour forth, pour out, puke, quitclaim,
recant, regurgitate, reject, relinquish, render up, renounce,
resign, retch, retract, sacrifice, send forth, send out, sick up,
spare, spew, spout, spurt, squirt, surrender, swear off, throw out,
throw up, upchuck, vacate, vomit, waive, yield
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