DISGORGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disgorge mean? 

• DISGORGE (verb)
  The verb DISGORGE has 2 senses:

1. cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over

2. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

  Familiarity information: DISGORGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISGORGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disgorge    ... he / she / it disgorges   
Past simple: disgorged   
Past participle: disgorged   
-ing form: disgorging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

disgorge; shed; spill

Context example:

spill the beans all over the table

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

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)

 Context examples 

The attendant has just been to me to say that Renfield has been very sick and has disgorged a whole lot of feathers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then, said Traddles, you must prepare to disgorge all that your rapacity has become possessed of, and to make restoration to the last farthing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But he would disgorge the bait now.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The milk he had sucked with his first flickering life, was milk transformed directly from meat, and now, at a month old, when his eyes had been open for but a week, he was beginning himself to eat meat—meat half-digested by the she-wolf and disgorged for the five growing cubs that already made too great demand upon her breast.

(White Fang, by Jack London)