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DISGORGE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Example:

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Synonyms:

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "disgorge" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

disgorgement (the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over

Example:

spill the beans all over the table

Synonyms:

disgorge; shed; spill

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "disgorge" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

slop; spill; splatter (cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disgorge"):

seed (go to seed; shed seeds)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

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