disgorge
verbUK /dɪsˈɡɔːdʒ/
Etymology From Middle French desgorger.
1
To vomit or spew, to discharge.
- 1598-1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation This mountain when it rageth […] casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.
- They loudly laughed / To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
2 more examples
- GCN's local reporter needs help keeping up w/ the masses of information disgorged by our busy world.1982 December 11, “Help Make News”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 14:
- The set disgorges most of its passengers at Waverley [Edinburgh], so finding a table seat in the front car isn't a problem.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
2
Law To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
- Derived terms
- disgorgeable, disgorgement, disgorger, undisgorged
- Related terms
- gorge, engorge, regurgitate