(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.
Spill
Definition:
(n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
(n.) A slender piece of anything.
(n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
(n.) A metallic rod or pin.
(n.) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
(n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
(n.) A little sum of money.
(v. t.) To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
(v. t.) To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
(v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
(v. t.) To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
(v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
(v. t.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
(v. i.) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
(v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(2) According to Nigerian government figures, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, and there are 2,000 official major spillage sites, many going back decades, with thousands of smaller spills still waiting to be cleared up.
(3) In another patient, there were symptoms of drug overdose when the contents of the balloon spilled into the intestinal tract.
(4) It was, as we say in French, the drop of water that made the glass spill over.
(5) I couldn't shake the harsh words from my head and worried about if, or when, they would spill over into real life.
(6) My role as deputy is to support the leader, not to change the leader, and I don’t support a spill motion.” “I support the prime minister, I support the leader.
(7) And it has left the international community floundering as it tries to respond to conflicts spilling across the globe.
(8) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
(9) Tony Abbott has heard the message on the need to change his leadership style, a senior minister has said, warning the prime minister’s detractors against moving an “amateur-hour” spill motion next week.
(10) Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned today.
(11) Droplets of each admixture were placed on stainless steel, laboratory coat cloth, pieces of latex examination glove, bench-top absorbent padding, and other materials on which antineoplastics might spill or leak.
(12) Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive new contract spilling over into strike action.
(13) Three years of frustration at the torpor he found at the centre of the party spills out.
(14) Spills in the US are responded to in minutes; in the Niger delta, which suffers more pollution each year than the Gulf of Mexico, it can take companies weeks or more.
(15) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
(16) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
(17) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
(18) The serum triglyceride of the patients in group 4 (highest urinary glucose content and spills) was significantly elevated above three other groups with less glucosuria.
(19) For example, one victim of the federal cuts is oil spill response units , which means that drilling and pipeline projects will become even riskier.
(20) BP would need to bring equipment from Texas to contain South Australia oil spill Read more BP plans to drill the first of four exploratory wells off the South Australian coast next year and submitted an environmental plan (pdf) for approval to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority last week.