disgorging

verb

present participle of disgorge
as in ejecting
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 Synonyms for disgorging
  1. ejecting
  2. expelling
  3. erupting
  4. spitting
  5. pouring
  6. belching
  7. spewing
  8. emitting
Verb
  • The crash triggered an emergency response near Morro Bay, where the pilot was rescued after ejecting from the aircraft.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Derek Gutierrez, a public affairs specialist with the 149th Fighter Wing, said the pilot received medical treatment after ejecting from the aircraft.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of ejecting
Verb
  • Those include bringing the Kurdish peshmerga security forces in northern Iraq under control of the central government’s military and expelling Iranian Kurdish dissident groups and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, that have bases in the region.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The thought of the SEC expelling one of its charter members after 94 years of inclusion seems preposterous.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of expelling
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  • The Hunga caldera is thought to have collapsed even as the volcano was erupting.
    — Yook Ji Hun, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
  • However, this doesn't seem to be the case with the jets erupting from blazar 3C 345.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of erupting
Verb
  • Is this tobacco-spitting, plain-talking Jon Sumrall a coaching amalgamation of Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer?
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Neutrons are unstable when they’re not bound in nuclei, spontaneously spitting out lighter particles in about 15 minutes to become the slightly lighter proton.
    — Cara Giovanetti, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of spitting
Verb
  • Clark briefly left the court with blood pouring from her mouth.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • A couple of inches can mean the difference between water staying out of one’s house or pouring in.
    — Brian Tang, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of pouring
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  • The filmmaker contrasts her bucolic nature scenes with shots of the giant ships passing by and the interiors and exteriors of the factories located near the island, belching smoke and lit up at night like a forbidding theme park.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Labor Day atop the last of the Titan-Centaur rockets, belching orange flame into the clear blue skies and scattering birds and other wildlife.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of belching
Verb
  • The machine can continue spewing currency until it is emptied or the operation is interrupted, according to Treasury.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
  • But her worries subsided on the day of, after seeing Hunnam rigged up and spewing.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of spewing
Verb
  • Keeping the active molecules apart The researchers traced the improvement to the way the light-emitting molecules are held inside the coating.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The devices, essentially dimmable table lamps with a heat-emitting bulb positioned above a jar, melt scented wax from the top down.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of emitting
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“Disgorging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgorging. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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