Disgorging

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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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