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
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.
—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
And yet, the sands of Montana seem to have disgorged a second one.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
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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.
—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
And yet, the sands of Montana seem to have disgorged a second one.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgorge
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The passenger in the Land Rover, Fedeline Alexis Saint Cyr, 59, was ejected during the collision and pronounced dead at the scene.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
2 June 2026
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Zidane was ejected and France lost.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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After the second group stage match, national icon Diego Maradona was expelled from the tournament due to a positive doping test.—
Débora Rey,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
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The repercussions for Brooks were minimal; a criminal court fined him $300, and a vote to expel him from the House failed.—
Rob Wolfe,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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With California facing increasingly destructive wildfires, experts and officials have long urged the strategic removal of dense, flammable vegetation that can erupt into particularly destructive flames from a lightning bolt or the spark of a power line.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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So Arsenal wasn't even playing on May 19, when a tie in a match between Manchester City and AFC Bournemouth meant the overall math ensured the Gunners' victory — and North London erupted into a sea of red Arsenal jerseys.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
29 May 2026
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Angered by the demonstration, Keenan first screamed at the protesters and then spit in the face of one.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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In my experience, ChatGPT is still a pretty bad writer and can’t hack the existential risk involved in spitting out a compelling thesis.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
26 May 2026
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Looking for invisible matter Because dark matter does not emit light, scientists must search for it indirectly.—
Christopher Karwin,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
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This ground-level ozone can form when carbon monoxide gas emitted by wildfires chemically reacts with nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight.—
Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
8 June 2026
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Cards and well-wishes poured in from around the world, as did calls from oblivious travelers.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
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Bartenders poured agave-centric cocktails from behind a long bar.—
Jenna Thompson
June 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 June 2026
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Methane has been seen spewing from comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time that the gas has been identified on an interstellar object.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
5 June 2026
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The lava had spewed out from a distant volcano, leaving a large, almost flat area from the foot of the mountains to the river.—
Anton Money,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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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.—
Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
14 May 2026
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When Pinatubo started convulsing and belching steam in April of that year, scientists from the United States and the Philippines deployed an array of instruments that tracked the volcano’s inner tumult.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 May 2026
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“Disgorge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgorge. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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