as in eructations
an expulsion of stomach gas through the mouth
with a loud belch he concluded his pig-out and rose at last from the table
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as in erupts
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
the volcano belched lava and ash for days
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Recent Examples of belches
Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
Her old garbage disposal is still in place and frequently belches waste back into the sink.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
Five belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
—Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
Four belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
Her old garbage disposal is still in place and frequently belches waste back into the sink.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belches
Verb
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The Guardians must protect the Legendary Silver Crystal when a battle erupts with a mysterious enemy during the Celestial Ball and plunges the Moon Palace into chaos.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
3 Apr. 2026
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Controversy erupts at Yale as damning letter from legendary coach leaks.—
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FOXNews.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Feb. 2026
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Results published in Nature show that cells use bioelectricity to coordinate a complex collective behavior called extrusion, a vital process that ejects sick or struggling individual cells from tissue to maintain health and keep growth in check.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
Verb
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According to WaPo‘s sources, the system spits out precise location coordinates for missile strikes and prioritizes them by importance.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
4 Mar. 2026
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Afterward, experience the twists and turns of Lookout Mountain, which shoots you through big boulders and spits you out on a lazy river.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2026
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This is the palette of the machine-made, that which is inhuman, and Duchamp would drive the point home in Coffee Mill (1911), a tiny painting of a grinder that expels a cascade of brown beans.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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The team found the center of M82 expels the equivalent of seven suns each year.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Such initiatives are crucial for understanding how our home star emits radiation, a life-and-death concern for human spaceflight missions — particularly for trips to the moon, as NASA is pursuing with the Artemis program, or Mars.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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Its root system emits a toxic chemical called juglone.—
Helena Madden,
Martha Stewart,
4 Apr. 2026
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Blood spurts against the window.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The 9-9-9 challenge in Section 139 invites fans to tackle nine slider hot dogs paired with nine 4-ounce beer pours across 9 innings.—
Jasmine Arenas,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The cast’s sole survivor is Jessica Hecht, who pours miraculous warmth and complexity into her faintly insulting role as Colleen, the head teller, a morally upright spinster goosed by her flirtation with Sonny and the spotlight.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Belches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belches. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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