Belch

Quick meaning: Belch is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, immunology) To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do so loudly.

Meaning

(ambitransitive, immunology) To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do so loudly.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise.
2. An instance of belching; the sound that it makes.
3. (obsolete) Malt liquor.

Example Sentences

She eats too fast, belches behind a cupped hand, smiles.

Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.

Vulcan this plague begot; and, like his sire, Black clouds he belch'd, and flakes of livid fire.

I sing the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death at will. Ah, but the wailing mothers, the lifeless forms and still!

Word Forms

• belches
• belching
• belched

Synonyms for belch

Depending on context, synonyms include burp, erupt, eructation, belching, eruct, burping.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eructation, burp, eruct, burping, bubble, erupt.

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