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Definition of Disgorge

1. Verb. Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over. "Spill the beans all over the table"

2. Verb. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth. "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

Definition of Disgorge

1. v. t. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.

2. v. i. To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.

Definition of Disgorge

1. Verb. To vomit or spew, to discharge. ¹

2. Verb. To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly. ¹

3. Verb. (context: oenology) To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disgorge

1. to vomit [v -GORGED, -GORGING, -GORGES] - See also: vomit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disgorge

disgarrisons disgavel disgavels disgenic disgest disgested disgesting disgestion disgests disglorified

disglorifies disglorify disglorifying disglory disgorge (current term) disgorged disgorgement disgorgements disgorger disgorgers

disgorges disgorging disgospelling disgown disgowned disgowns disgrace disgraced disgracedness

Literary usage of Disgorge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1853)
"... disgorge their wretched population to regain their native pastures or die upon the way ; and a pure, sufficient, and unfailing stream will flow into the ..."

2. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"James В., too, discourages me a good deal by his silence, waiting, I suppose, to be invited to disgorge a full allowance of his critical bile. ..."

3. Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868)
"... disgorge " quotha, as if the vessels were sick) on the wharf, and everybody seemed to be working with might and main. It pleased me to think that I also ..."

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