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noun

plural of belch

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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verb

present tense third-person singular of belch

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

Noun

These types of foods can lead to bad-smelling belches, nausea, abdominal pain, and reflux. — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 16 Apr. 2026 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

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Verb

The best seat in the house is wherever the room erupts when the ball hits the net.

— Ali Farooqui, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
Gold is a safe-haven asset that investors gravitate toward when economic and political turmoil erupts, sending waves through the markets.

— Liz Knueven, CNBC, 15 July 2026

Definition of erupts

Verb

This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
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

Definition of ejects

Verb

The most forceful argument to this end comes during a sequence in Hades, when Sinon (Elliot Page, giving the film’s best performance) essentially spits on Odysseus’s ethical and narrative framework for the world.

— Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026
Lowry, in the meantime, would embark on a two-decade career in a league that spits out frauds on the regular.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

Definition of spits

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Now they are being flown to Bhutan - a country that still refuses to recognize them as citizens and expels them on arrival to India or Nepal.

— Maansi Srivastava, NPR, 21 July 2026
Mary can see how worried her sister looks and sits by her while… her mother expels another human being from her body, behind the very thin curtain just a few feet away.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026

Definition of expels

Verb

Ease on the power (there are five levels of assist), and the ride improves as the pedals combine with the rear hub, which is nearly silent at lower settings and emits only a slight whir at full power.

— William Roberson, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Looking deeper at the gamma-ray data, the team found the northern part of the remnant emits a totally different signal than the rest of the region.

— Damien Pine, Scientific American, 21 July 2026

Definition of emits

Verb

Aperol spritzes flowed off to one side, wine pours in the middle of the room, and plates of salads, seafood, paninis, pasta, and sweets were served—often by Vizzari and Dosio themselves.

— Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Celebrities with reach and personal reasons for going alcohol-free are now designing sparkling aperitifs, functional tonics, craft beers, wines and mixers built to sit comfortably next to anything a bartender pours.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 22, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2026

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