as in to eject
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
the volcano disgorged lava in a spectacular nighttime show
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Recent Examples of disgorge
Tanker trucks were hijacked and found later, empty, their liquid-gold cargo evidently disgorged into some gas station’s underground tanks.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
Sometimes passengers are disgorged onto melting pavement to await their next Tunnel Tesla in the desert city’s 100-degree heat.
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Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
That said, the amount of market cap being accumulated and disgorged daily by the massive tech platform companies isn’t entirely comforting.
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
29 Nov. 2025
The tourists are already lined up, disgorged from the buses, on their cells.
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Karl Kirchwey,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disgorge
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
Sometimes passengers are disgorged onto melting pavement to await their next Tunnel Tesla in the desert city’s 100-degree heat.
—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
That said, the amount of market cap being accumulated and disgorged daily by the massive tech platform companies isn’t entirely comforting.
—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
29 Nov. 2025
The tourists are already lined up, disgorged from the buses, on their cells.
—
Karl Kirchwey,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disgorge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgorge
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Firefighters said one of the victims was ejected from one of the vehicles.
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Six months earlier, observers believed the space plane had ejected six objects at once, but those were later determined to be debris left over from launch.
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One study suggests that mass air-conditioning could expel enough hot air to raise the city’s temperature by nearly 4 degrees Fahrenheit on the hottest days, and bring more intense localized effects on narrow streets and in building courtyards.
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This decision clears the way for more than 350,000 people to be stripped of status and expelled, many of them after having used this status over years as the basis to build stable lives all around the country, including here in NYC.
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The crowd erupted as the ball crunched the back of the net.
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Following the large blaze that erupted at a Boyle Heights cold storage facility, CBS LA Cares is heading to East Los Angeles to host an ice cream social event to hear directly from residents.
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Over a Nineties hip-hop beat, East Coast to be exact, Czarface’s Inspectah Deck and Esoteric spit their verses before Hardy, er, Pulitzer comes in.
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After being asked to leave the property by officials, Zimmerman spat toward a hotel security officer, prompting staff to call the police.
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All smartphones sold in the country are required to emit a shutter sound when taking photos and videos, an industry measure designed to deter covert photography.
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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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Moist towels soothe necks, mist bottles spray short relief, hand fans flap in overdrive; motorized fans are held up to strangers at cafés, who have resorted to pouring water directly on their chests for cooling.
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When disposing of bleach and other cleaning products, never pour them down the sink.
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That’s nothing more than a nonsensical, demonizing political narrative spewed by left-wing politicians and their brethren in the progressive chattering class.
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Warehouses soon moved in to the area and have been spewing gases into the adjacent neighborhoods ever since.
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Unlike with other major methane sources, such as belching cattle or melting permafrost, the technology to curb emissions from oil and gas operations is already viable, and fairly cheap.
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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.
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“Disgorge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgorge. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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