as in to eject
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
the volcano disgorged lava in a spectacular nighttime show
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Recent Examples of disgorge
Any records being held by New York City and its agencies must be disgorged.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
One seawall seemed to be disgorging a steady stream of liquid into the river, as if connected to a spigot.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
As such, the judge couldn't really grant Encompass' request that profits be disgorged.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
Shkreli’s request that the Supreme Court take his appeal of a federal judge’s decision was his last chance to overturn the penalty that held him personally responsible for disgorging profits his company made from selling the drug Daraprim.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2024
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
One seawall seemed to be disgorging a steady stream of liquid into the river, as if connected to a spigot.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
As such, the judge couldn't really grant Encompass' request that profits be disgorged.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
Shkreli’s request that the Supreme Court take his appeal of a federal judge’s decision was his last chance to overturn the penalty that held him personally responsible for disgorging profits his company made from selling the drug Daraprim.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgorge
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After a month-long pause, during which the Kremlin’s priority was to eject a strong Ukrainian force from western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Russians are on the attack again outside Pokrovsk, a fortress city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.—
David Axe,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Reid, DiVincenzo, Holland, Isaiah Stewart, Marcus Sasser, Bickerstaff, 46, and Prigioni, 47, were all ejected from the game, NBA.com reported.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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His family are from Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom on the eastern edge of the Himalayas, from where they were expelled in the 1990s because of a conflict over ethnicity and politics, sparked by resurgent Bhutanese nationalists.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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But two days after Trump retook the White House this year on promises of tightening America’s borders and expelling violent criminals, Parris found himself at a red light in his Arizona neighborhood, surrounded by unmarked SUVs.—
Celina Tebor,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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The reaction by members of Greenland's parliament and residents has rendered that unlikely, with anger erupting over the Trump administration’s attempts to annex the vast Arctic island.—
PHILIP CROWTHER,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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Tensions ran high and in some cases erupted into violence during several Tarrant County Commissioners Court meetings following Yancy’s death.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Mar. 2025
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The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics performance using GDI, 3D graphics performance using OpenGL, and disk speed (broken into four sub-benchmarks for sequential and random read and write performance).—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
31 Mar. 2025
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While the software does issue a disclaimer before spitting out its design, seemingly to avoid trademark issues, some fair-use hawks are not convinced.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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Researchers are still trying to investigate why exactly the rig shark emits these sounds.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
25 Mar. 2025
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These very bright devices can emit upwards of 10,000 lux, designed to mimic a sunny day and help with symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD).—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
24 Mar. 2025
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The teen poured some Al Green grit on the gospel great’s 2007 ballad, again inspiring Richie to hop up and testify to some powerful vocals.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
7 Apr. 2025
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Just crack an egg into the chick, and the white pours smoothly out of its beak, leaving the yolk intact and safely inside.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Apr. 2025
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These billionaires cannot help themselves in spewing their contempt for the rest of us.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2025
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Brooke is a narcissist just like her dad … going out ... spewing lies to everyone and I’m supposed to defend my truth against that.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The past 24 hours has seen US President Donald Trump’s slow-burn, apparent dislike for his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, belch out into the open.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
19 Feb. 2025
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The past 24 hours has seen US President Donald Trump’s slow-burn, apparent dislike for his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, belch out into the open.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Disgorge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgorge. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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