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
Mira Miller,
Verywell Health,
16 Apr. 2026
Five belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
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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.
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Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
These types of foods can lead to bad-smelling belches, nausea, abdominal pain, and reflux.
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Mira Miller,
Verywell Health,
16 Apr. 2026
Five belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
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Kevin J. Farmer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
Four belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
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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
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Gold is a safe-haven asset that investors gravitate toward when economic and political turmoil erupts, sending waves through the markets.
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When violence erupts, the tension shows up in our own homes.
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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.
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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.
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This week, Tyla gets in her feelings, Tierra Whack spits bars on a spritely beat, and Kelela slows it down on a lover’s lament that dates back to her debut album.
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In testing with an RTX 5090, DiffusionGemma spits out around 700 tokens per second.
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Sneezing forcefully expels mucus and airborne debris; reflexive blinking may help shield the eyes from contaminants moving upward across the face.
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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.
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The sun also emits two other types of UV light – UVC (200-280 nm) and vacuum UV (100-200 nm) – but these are stopped by the atmosphere, so sunscreens do not typically need to be able to block them.
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The sun also emits two other types of UV light – UVC (200-280 nm) and vacuum UV (100-200 nm) – but these are stopped by the atmosphere, so sunscreens do not typically need to be able to block them.
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Blood spurts against the window.
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The Brewista Artisan heats up fast, features to-the-degree temperature control via LCD panel with nine preset temperatures, and pours at the perfect rate thanks to its precision gooseneck spout.
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In the east half of the lake, east of Thursday Bay, the channel necks down to a width of 30 to 40 yards between bays, and the water pours fast through these necks.
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“Belches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belches. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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