Synonyms of spewing

spewing

verb

present participle of spew

1

as in pouring

to flow out in great quantities or with force

water spewing violently from the broken pipe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pouring
• rushing
• spouting
• streaming
• gushing
• spurting
• rolling
• squirting
• splashing
• jetting
• swooshing
• running
• washing
• issuing
• flushing
• flooding
• cascading
• surging
• sloshing
• swelling
• drowning
• inundating
• overflowing
• sluicing
• engulfing
• submerging
• swamping
• plashing
• overwhelming
• deluging
• fountaining
• submersing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dripping
• dropping
• trickling
• dribbling
• sprinkling
• bleeding
• leaking
• oozing
• weeping
• seeping
• straining
• percolating
• spattering
• exuding

2

as in erupting

to violently throw out or off (something from within)

a volcano spewing out lava

Synonyms & Similar Words

• erupting
• spitting
• ejecting
• expelling
• spouting
• belching
• emitting
• pouring
• spurting
• firing
• disgorging
• releasing
• jetting
• hurling
• eructing
• streaming
• issuing
• gushing
• exhaling
• emanating
• squirting
• surging
• heaving
• tossing
• flinging
• venting
• springing
• launching
• shooting
• discharging
• casting
• pitching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• containing
• restraining
• shutting (in or up)
• bottling (up)

3

as in vomiting

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth

"I'm going to spew right here in the car if you don't pull over!" she wailed to her friend

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vomiting
• hurling
• puking
• retching
• barfing
• heaving
• ejecting
• gagging
• spitting up
• throwing up
• upchucking
• regurgitating
• disgorging
• losing one's lunch
• tossing one's cookies
• expelling
• nauseating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of spewing

Warehouses soon moved in to the area and have been spewing gases into the adjacent neighborhoods ever since. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

In videos posted to social media, fireworks can be seen spewing from the truck as a thick plume of black smoke spirals into the sky. — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 8 June 2026

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

Via handheld camera, the scientist directs us to the ad hoc headquarters where his team has set up, a desk strewn with floppy disks and wires, cords spewing from the backs of oversized computer processors. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 27 May 2026

In the video, someone is seen wearing a mask and holding up the possible flamethrower and aiming it overhead with flames spewing into the air. — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026

As previously reported, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in particular. — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026

Instead of semi-trailer rigs spewing air pollutants while idling at the warehouses, data centers pull enormous amounts of electricity, housing computer systems that help train artificial intelligence criteria. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026