(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.
(v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.
(v. i.) To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
(2) Days before Obiang Jr's private jet touched down, two massive lorries would pull up outside and disgorge a sea of fresh flowers to dress the interior of the mansion.
(3) Perhaps it was because, despite being the first portable music player, it wasn't as easy to lug around as the MP3 player; its chunky dimensions compelled it to be worn clipped to a belt, creating the danger that it would unclip itself – which it did with obnoxious regularity – and crash to the ground, disgorging its batteries.
(4) We disgorge on to the top floor and are card-scanned into the mayoral complex.
(5) The Treasury is disgorging its growth strategy before the autumn statement since it knows the day itself will be dominated by the Office for Budget Responsibility's new forecasts for growth, borrowing, unemployment and their consequences for its goal of eradicating the structural deficit by 2015-16.
(6) From 3am until early afternoon, some 120 blue buses had been and gone, disgorging an estimated 4,000 refugees.
(7) The $490m penalty is based on a $435m fine and the disgorgement of the $35m profit the bank is alleged to have made.
(8) Credit Suisse was fined $60m fine split between the SEC and NY attorney-general’s office, as well as a further $24.3m in disgorgement — which is designed to make it pay back ill-gotten gains - in relation to its dark pool called “Crossfinder”.
(9) Both candidates have ideas , some of them rather similar, to build more homes – 50,000 a year in Goldsmith’s case – mostly by persuading public bodies such as Transport for London (TfL) to disgorge some of the vast amount of brownfield land they own but do not use.
(10) Down the slope, past a snarl of blackberry bushes, is Canada’s largest container grain-loading facility, where trainloads of malt are disgorged into containers and then trucked off to the shipping terminals.
(11) Perched on the country’s eastern coastline, near to where the Yangtze disgorges its murky waters into the East China Sea, Rudong is the greyest corner of this rapidly ageing nation.
(12) Following a rule last year that would have made the liners pass west of the Giudecca to disgorge tourists at Venice docks, shipping operators lobbied so that their customers could continue viewing the city from the comfort of their deck chairs.
(13) We tell them, ‘you don’t have to fear any more,’ then we take them to the camps.” On the road past the rubbish-strewn yard where army trucks disgorge Mosul’s latest refugees, an American convoy rumbled past, while more jets roared overhead.
(14) And we've got a full-blown investigation, and all that information will be disgorged to Congress.
(15) "I sometimes think that remuneration committees and senior investment banking executives need to be reminded of this reality before they disgorge huge bonuses," he said.
(16) After the London market had closed, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced the scale of the fine – $435m, plus a $35m order to disgorge alleged profits made by the bank – for the alleged offences which are supposed to have taken place between 2006 and 2008.
(17) That included $350m in disgorgement – a repayment for the profits it was estimated to have made as a result of the bribery.
(18) Around 9am the ferries begin disgorging small groups of elderly tourists who want to look at the monastery, and large parties of Italian schoolchildren who really don’t want to look at the monastery but are being made to before they’re allowed to run screaming into the water.
(19) Promptly at 9am the highly organised camp in a legally squatted field (compensation payments ready for the brothers who farm it) disgorged a series of raiding parties in the direction of the cooling towers.
(20) One by one they came – vessels the size of tenement blocks – disgorging holidaymakers on to an esplanade dotted with little white buildings in scenes of exuberant commotion.
Spew
Definition:
(v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
(v. t.) To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
(v. i.) To vomit.
(v. i.) To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
(n.) That which is vomited; vomit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven years of Thatcher's reign, feared an avalanche of "bile" would "spew" from its pages and decided to keep comments closed, according to insiders.
(2) Media organisations gorge themselves, then spew out vast quantities of video, sound and copy.
(3) Meanwhile, California's pollution control officers warned this month that extreme heat and wildfires could set back decades of improvements in air quality, boosting smog formation and spewing dangerous smoke into the air.
(4) The old divisions between rich and poor countries, the climate polluters of the past and the rising economies now spewing out carbon in their rush to prosperity, were wearing away, they said.
(5) The tea-shop owner’s home is just a couple of hundred metres from a huge, ageing coal-fired power plant in central Turkey , whose red-and-white chimneys spew dirty fumes.
(6) Could hit their market share if so.” During the byelection, anonymous Tweeters such as @northerncomment – a hate-spewing account followed by O’Flynn – were still chuntering about a boycott of Walkers.
(7) On 1 February, 17 died when Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province spewed lava and gas.
(8) Meanwhile, at the top of the tree, managers of the maquiladoras – faced with recession and competition from Asia – needed fewer workers, spewing their surplus humanity (which flocked here from all over Mexico) into the new narco-economy of "opportunities" for murder, extortion and kidnapping.
(9) Few who spew this vitriol would dare speak with the type of personalized scorn toward, say, George Bush or Tony Blair – who actually launched an aggressive war that resulted in the deaths of at least 100,000 innocent people and kidnapped people from around the globe with no due process and sent them to be tortured.
(10) That's why his praise for European fascists as being the only ones saying "sensible" things about Islam is significant: not because it means he's a European fascist, but because it's unsurprising that the bile spewed at Muslims from that faction would be appealing to Harris because he shares those sentiments both in his rhetoric and his advocated policies, albeit with a more intellectualized expression.
(11) The refinery chimneys were spewing out 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air per year till 2011.
(12) Drillers have lost control over wells during fracking, including one last month in Bradford County that spewed chemicals for 19 hours.
(13) The plant, located 150 miles north of Tokyo, has spewed radiation into the atmosphere and contaminated seawater and agricultural produce, forcing the evacuation of 80,000 people living nearby.
(14) But environmental groups have accused the bloc of doing too little to end subsidies for carbon-spewing coal power plants, and of undermining investments in renewables.
(15) Gatwick’s gung ho about expansion Barely had David Cameron got back to Downing Street than the Airports Commission was reopening its consultation on Heathrow versus Gatwick, and publishing new data on the fumes each expanded airport would spew into their neighbourhoods.
(16) Every time I see Lindsey Graham spew hate during interviews I ask why the media never questions how I single handily [sic] destroyed his hapless run for president.
(17) But he warned that countries must avoid being "locked in" to high-carbon infrastructure - power stations and buildings constructed today will still be in operation and spewing out carbon decades from now, and that will be unsustainable.
(18) The fascinating pitter-patter of stomach contents against the back of your teeth as a fearsome torrent of spew erupts from within like a liquid poltergeist fleeing an exorcism.
(19) These mobile factories dig out earth and line a concrete shell around them as they push ahead, spewing out spoil and laying track behind them.
(20) And MSNBC still has quite a ways to go before it matches Fox's demonstrated willingness to spew outright falsehoods in pursuit of its partisan agenda.