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Definition of belch
belch
nounExplore Merriam-Webster
Examples of belch in a Sentence
He belched loudly, and his girlfriend said, “That's disgusting!”.
Smoke belched from the factory chimneys beside the river.
Recent Examples of belch from the Web
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The affable Williamson belched after returning from a commercial break.
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Sierra Nevada The Lost Abbey Belching Beaver The Bierbitzch Brewing Co.
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The gray smoke that belched for hours from a popular hotel-casino in Manila was initially dismissed by the police as the work of a disgruntled gambler with a bottle of gasoline.
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Sometimes, our star will belch out intense streams of plasma, known as coronal mass ejections.
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But NASA's alternative gadget, called an EM drive, would generate thrust without the need to belch exhaust.
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For example, if volcanos happen to belch a lot of sun-blocking gases into the atmosphere, temperatures will go down.
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For years, their main bogyman was the Soviet-era Baykalsk Paper and Pulp Mill that sat on the shoreline belching pollutants into the spectacular lake, which contains about one-fifth of the unfrozen freshwater on the earth’s surface.
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If our civilization belches another 700 to 1,000 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere, says Notz—about 20 to 25 years’ worth, at current rates—the Arctic’s summer ice will vanish.
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Origin and Etymology of belch
Middle English, from Old English bealcan
BELCH Defined for English Language Learners
belch
playDefinition of belch for English Language Learners
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: to let out air from the stomach through the mouth very loudly
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: to push or throw (something) out with force
BELCH Defined for Kids
Definition of belch for Students
belched
;belching
1 : to force out gas suddenly from the stomach through the mouth usually with a sound
2 : to throw out or be thrown out with force Smoke belched from the chimney.
Definition of belch for Students
: a forcing out of gas from the stomach through the mouth
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