belch

verb

\ ˈbelch

belched; belching; belches

Definition of belch

intransitive verb

1 : to expel gas suddenly from the stomach through the mouth

2 : to erupt, explode, or detonate violently

3 : to issue forth spasmodically : gush

transitive verb

1 : to eject or emit violently angrily belched insults

2 : to expel (gas) from the stomach suddenly : eruct

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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.

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Listening for rumbles and belches The United States is home to 161 active volcanoes, many of which form a line along the west coast through California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. — Shannon Hall, New York Times, "We’re Barely Listening to the U.S.’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes," 9 Sep. 2019 Think snorts, belches and a hum that is vaguely reminiscent of Chewbacca. — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, "Meet your spitting sherpas: Wilderness therapy in Colorado has llamas as your guide," 1 July 2019 At the front of the park stood a towering waterfall, a water slide and a volcano that belched smoke. — John Carlisle, Freep.com, "LAND OF THE LOST Irish Hills tourist stop owner aims to restore dinosaur park," 6 June 2019 Diesel truck traffic, massive cargo ships, trains, recycling and wastewater treatment plants – all of it – belching invisible particles non-stop into the air and, eventually, into our lungs. — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, "Air pollution inside my house could kill me. What are you breathing in at your home?," 15 Sep. 2019 Malone’s sustained vibrato belches do not bother the ear with differentiable lyrics. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Post Malone Is the Voice of Modern Brain Fog," 9 Sep. 2019 Scientists have assumed that volcanic eruptions ended the ice ages, by belching carbon dioxide and warming the planet. — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, "Shock and thaw? Earth’s oldest asteroid impact may have helped lift the planet out of a deep freeze," 27 Aug. 2019 San Francisco officials want to shrink the city’s carbon footprint by eliminating the greenhouse gases belched from cars, trucks and other vehicles by 2040. — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, "To cut carbon footprint, SF moves to eliminate vehicle emissions by 2040," 16 July 2019 Here, too, human activities — the creation of rice paddies, raising of huge numbers of sheep and goats, and landfilling organic material that then rots — have helped the methane-belching microbes proliferate. — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, "Who are the biggest U.S. methane emitters?," 30 Aug. 2019

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