Belch
[beltʃ] or [bɛltʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth.
Typed by Carlyle--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
(v. i.) To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.
(v. i.) To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.
(v. i.) To issue with spasmodic force or noise.
(n.) The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.
(n.) Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.
Typist: Shirley
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Eject (as wind from the stomach), discharge.[2]. Throw out violently, cast forth.
v. n. [1]. Eructate, eject wind from the stomach.[2]. Be ejected violently.
Typed by Jody
Definition
v.t. to void wind from the stomach by the mouth: to eject violently: to cast up as of the smoke from a volcano or a cannon.—n. eructation.
Edited by Kathleen
Examples
- The deep cannonade of roaring thunder belched forth its fearsome challenge. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The consequence of the earthquake was a general sickness, from the noisome vapours belched forth, which swept away above three thousand persons. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Inputed by Agnes