disgorge en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /dɪsˈɡɔːdʒ/ (UK)
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Etymology
From Middle French desgorger.
Meanings
-
To vomit or spew, to discharge.
They loudly laughed / To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.
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:The set disgorges most of its passengers at Waverley [Edinburgh], so finding a table seat in the front car isn't a problem.
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:GCN's local reporter needs help keeping up w/ the masses of information disgorged by our busy world.
1982 December 11, “Help Make News”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 14:1598-1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation This mountain when it rageth […] casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.
- To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
- To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| disgorged | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disgorged | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| disgorging | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disgorges | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
disgorgeable · disgorger · disgorgement · undisgorged
Relateds
regurgitate · gorge · engorge
Translations (8)
bg изхвърлям лава (to vomit or spew) · de ausspucken (to vomit or spew) · de ausspeien (to vomit or spew) · fr vomir (to vomit or spew) · mi whakaruaki (to vomit or spew) · de auswerfen (to vomit or spew) · bg повръщам (to vomit or spew) · gv aayioold (to vomit or spew)