expectorated

verb

past tense of expectorate
1
as in spit

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2
as in expelled

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expectorated
  1. spit
  2. expelled
  3. watered
  4. exhaled
  5. expired
Verb
  • That’s when a 17-year-old girl spit at an officer when she was asked to leave the area, authorities said.
    — WBFF STAFF, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2026
  • The final game of their series win against the Colorado Rockies coincided with the second day of the 2026 MLB Draft, when teams start drafting based on outlier tools, senior signability or the statistical analyses their internal models spit out.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 13 July 2026
Definition of spit
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  • He was expelled from Congress while facing criminal charges over stealing from donors and his campaign, fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits and lying to Congress about his wealth.
    — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • The former was a concentration area for 200,000 refugees expelled from 247 localities, villages and towns and the area’s original 80,000 inhabitants; and the latter a frontier zone designed to incarcerate them.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
Definition of expelled
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  • Trees that have healthy roots don’t usually need to be watered daily, even in the summer, says Law.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 12 July 2026
  • Sometimes, soil can appear dark even when it hasn’t been watered, so don’t rely on appearances alone.
    — Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
Definition of watered
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  • Still, no one exhaled when production finally moved to a water tank at Universal Studios in Los Angeles.
    — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
  • Mosquitoes are drawn to backyards with standing water, dense greenery, and carbon dioxide exhaled by people and animals.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 3 July 2026
Definition of exhaled
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  • Questions about his fate grew after his sentence expired earlier this month.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026
  • That 2020 trade pact recently expired and triggered a new set of negotiations that could run until 2036.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 July 2026
Definition of expired
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