Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive, immunology) To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do so loudly.
2. (ambitransitive) To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise.
3. An instance of belching; the sound that it makes.
4. (obsolete) Malt liquor.

Example Sentences

1746, attributed to Jonathan Swift, "A Love Poem form a Physician to his Mistress," http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14353/pg14353-images.html When I an amorous kiss design'd, I belch'd a hurricane of wind.

'Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.

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

Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.

Within the gates of hell sat Sin and Death, In counterview within the gates, that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame Far into Chaos […].

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

[…]beneath him sound like waves on a desert shore The voice of slaves beneath the sun, and children bought with money, That shiver in religious caves beneath the burning fires Of lust, that belch incessant from the summits of the earth.

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

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Use belch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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