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disgorge en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /dɪsˈɡɔːdʒ/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Middle French desgorger.

Meanings

  1. 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.
  2. To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
  3. To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
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)