as in burp
an expulsion of stomach gas through the mouth
with a loud belch he concluded his pig-out and rose at last from the table
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as in to spit
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
the volcano belched lava and ash for days
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Recent Examples of belch
Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 12 Dec. 2024
The sun is at its solar maximum — which means more auroras are likely in store
Jonathan Newton / Getty Images file
Earth’s star has ramped up activity, with giant flares erupting off the surface and belching streams of plasma and charged particles into space.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
Mining firms also suck up massive quantities of water and deploy fleets of drill rigs, trucks, diggers, and other heavy machinery that collectively belch out up to 7 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
And yet, the American military belches out more greenhouse gasses right now than any other institution in the world.
—Outside Online, 13 Nov. 2024
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Verb
Everyone called for tighter restrictions on Suncor’s emissions of carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter, which is made up of tiny particles of ash, soot and smoke that are belched into the air during the refining process.
—Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 12 Dec. 2024
The sun is at its solar maximum — which means more auroras are likely in store
Jonathan Newton / Getty Images file
Earth’s star has ramped up activity, with giant flares erupting off the surface and belching streams of plasma and charged particles into space.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
Mining firms also suck up massive quantities of water and deploy fleets of drill rigs, trucks, diggers, and other heavy machinery that collectively belch out up to 7 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
And yet, the American military belches out more greenhouse gasses right now than any other institution in the world.
—Outside Online, 13 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belch
Noun
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One device is a mask over the cow’s nose, collecting burps as they’re expelled.—
Marianne Krasny,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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More than 60 percent of global methane emissions come from human activity: extracting fossil fuels; raising cows that burp (not fart); dumping trash in our landfills and waste treatment sites.—
Rob Jackson,
WIRED,
7 Jan. 2025
Verb
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At times, those on the margins get inside, if only briefly, and others, who were established, get spit out.—
Deborah Treisman,
The New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2025
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Sten Lennart Jakobsen/East Zealand Museum About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures.—
James Doubek,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2025
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The chaos first erupted during last week’s Roundtable when Survivor’s Caorlyn Wiger attacked her fellow Traitor, Big Brother’s Danielle Reyes, for dropping her name while Danielle tried to vote out Survivor’s Boston Rob Mariano.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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In 1989 and 1990, the George H.W. Bush Administration promoted negotiations to end the first intifada — a Palestinian uprising that erupted in 1987 — on a land-for-peace basis.—
Peter L. Hahn / Made by History,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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Love and Freeman were ejected, but as the dust continued to settle between both teams, ASU head coach Bobby Hurley ordered all the players on his bench to go to the locker room.—
Ryan Morik,
Fox News,
1 Feb. 2025
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Northern lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, are caused by magnetic storms triggered by solar activity, like solar flares (explosions on the sun) or coronal mass ejections (ejected gas bubbles).—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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Only in 1998 did Assad expel Ocalan, yielding to the threat of military intervention by Turkish President Suleyman Demirel.—
Halil Karaveli,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Feb. 2025
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But ahead of Trump's inauguration, the president of Honduras threatened to expel members of the U.S. military stationed in the country in response to mass deportations of Honduran nationals.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
1 Feb. 2025
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Meta, which has committed to achieving carbon neutrality in its operations, is already working to assuage the guilt of relying on carbon dioxide emitting natural gas to run Sucré.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes,
8 Feb. 2025
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Those facilities support networks that emit electromagnetic waves with a higher frequency than earlier generations of wireless, enabling them to carry more information at greater speed.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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While the Eaton, Palisades and other fires spewed dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere, air quality readings in the region didn’t fully capture all the wildfire pollutants, air quality officials cautioned.—
Ben Poston,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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In 2015, Axial spewed out 5.5 billion cubic feet of lava.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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The beauty of this device is its hard-working design, which disperses any essential oil of your choosing through the air while spurting a continuous mist of moisturizing vapor in the air.—
Sarah Madaus,
Allure,
13 Jan. 2025
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Third quarter spurt, but Sixers respond The Kings moved to a zone defense early in the third quarter that seemed to flummox Philadelphia.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacramento Bee,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Belch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belch. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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