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eructate
verb as in belch
verb as in eruct
Example Sentences
A Botox injection resolved their problems by giving them the ability to burp, or, to use an academic term, eructate.
To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.
"What beats me," James had once exclaimed, "is how a man like you who professes to admire—no, I believe you're honest—who does admire Stendhal, Turgenev, Flaubert and Merim�e, who recognizes the perfection of Manon Lescaut and Adolphe, who in a word has taste, can bring himself to eructate the Fall of Babylon."
Eructate, e-ruk′tāt, v.t. to belch out, as wind from the stomach.—n.
Associated words: ontology, metaphysics, ontological, ontologist. belch, v. eruct, expel, throw up; eructate. belching, n. eructation. belfry, n. bell-tower, campanile.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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