belched; belching; belches
1
: to expel gas suddenly from the stomach through the mouth
2
: to erupt, explode, or detonate violently
3
: to issue forth spasmodically : gush
1
: to eject or emit violently
angrily belched insults
2
: to expel (gas) from the stomach suddenly : eruct
belch
noun
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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Alexander Smith, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
The $20 billion facility, run by Musk’s AI firm xAI, is powered by 27 methane gas turbines that run day and night, belching fumes and emitting a constant noise like jet engines, NBC News reports.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026
Gloria stood up and belched, freeing me from her weight.
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
That’s because after pulling huge profits from the earth, Oklahoma oil companies left behind tens of thousands of unplugged wells that belch greenhouse gases and allow industrial waste to spread belowground.
—Nick Bowlin, The Frontier, 16 Feb. 2026
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“Belch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belch. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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belch
1 of 2 intransitive verb
: to expel gas suddenly from the stomach through the mouth
: to expel (gas) from the stomach suddenly : eruct
belch
2 of 2 noun
: an act or instance of belching : eructation
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