belched

verb

past tense of belch
as in erupted
to violently throw out or off (something from within) the volcano belched lava and ash for days

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Recent Examples of belched For decades, Saarland’s foundries and furnaces belched black into the sky. — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026 The rare isotope is mostly locked away deep within our world’s innards, but vanishingly small quantities are belched out in volcanic eruptions and through natural gas pipelines. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026 Gloria stood up and belched, freeing me from her weight. — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 The nearby fire department rushed by boat to the crash site and were assisted by a private tug boat that helped douse the fire that belched black smoke from the barge, said Alton Deputy Fire Chief Matt Fischer. — Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belched
  1. erupted
  2. ejected
  3. expelled
  4. spit
  5. emitted
  6. spewed
  7. spurted
  8. disgorged
Verb
  • After that, chaos erupted, with dozens of masked people swarming the business.
    — Lesley Marin, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • One person was killed and two others critically injured when gunfire erupted outside a Utah church during a funeral, police said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of erupted
Verb
  • Boone didn’t get to watch the disastrous half-inning from the dugout, as he was ejected in the top of the sixth.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • A week later, on Tuesday, May 19, Southampton were ejected from the play-off final by the EFL’s independent disciplinary commission.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of ejected
Verb
  • He had been expelled from Latitude last school year, authorities said.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • He was expelled from the Communist Party in the late 1950s for criticising the government’s economic policies – and purged again during Mao’s Cultural Revolution a decade later.
    — CNN Staff, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of expelled
Verb
  • One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • When most of us think about edible seeds, our minds usually jump to chia seeds stirred into smoothies or overnight oats, pumpkin seeds roasted after carving jack-o'-lanterns each fall, or sunflower seeds chewed and spit out at a baseball game.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of spit
Verb
  • Led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, the mission aims to detect the faint 21-centimeter radio line emitted by early hydrogen atoms operating at low frequencies (10–50 MHz), a signal never before directly observed.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Amazingly, all this energy from the supernova is only a small fraction (about 1 percent) of the total that’s emitted!
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of emitted
Verb
  • Around 74,000 years ago, a caldera on what is now Sumatra emptied thousands of cubic kilometers of magma in about two weeks, roughly a thousand times more than Mount Pinatubo spewed out in 1991.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Early Tuesday morning, the volcano spewed lava that reached a height of about 300 meters (984 feet), triggering red alerts, evacuations, a highway’s closure, and the suspension of classes in three departments.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of spewed
Verb
  • Someone spurted hair spray on Tate McRae’s long locks.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • Oil prices spurted higher early this week on worries that the war will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for a long time.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Definition of spurted
Verb
  • From across the street, Yñiga’s view grew increasingly obstructed, first by an ambulance, then a parade of menacing black SUVs, and finally a van that disgorged a reporter and a yawning cameraman.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Their whiskey was disgorged before being entered into secondary, new American oak barrels that received light char and medium toast.
    — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Definition of disgorged

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