Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To belch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
eructate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch.
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- verb To
burp orbelch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
- verb expel gas from the stomach
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reporters proceeded to eruct a stream of questions that all basically boiled down to "Wow, the President feels, huh?"
Dyane Jean François: Breaking News: The President Has Feelings? Dyane Jean François 2011
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"Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence."
Don Quixote 2002
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We ate fifty oysters, and drank two bottles of sparkling champagne, which made my two guests eruct and blush and laugh at the same time.
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This is sometimes acquired by habit, so that some people can eruct when they please, and as long as they please; and there is gas enough generated to supply them for this purpose; for by Dr. Hale's experiments, an apple, and many other kinds of aliment, give up above six hundred times their own bulk of an elastic gas in fermentation.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Some, who have weak digestions, and thence have frequently been induced to eruct the quantity of air discharged from the fermenting aliment in their stomachs, have gradually obtained a power of voluntary eructation, and have been able thus to bring up hogsheads of air from their stomachs, whenever they pleased.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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We ate fifty oysters, and drank two bottles of sparkling champagne, which made my two guests eruct and blush and laugh at the same time.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 28: Rome Giacomo Casanova 1761
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We ate fifty oysters, and drank two bottles of sparkling champagne, which made my two guests eruct and blush and laugh at the same time.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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"Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence."
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581
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"Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence."
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581
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"Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence."
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 30 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581
ag0991 commented on the word eruct
to belch (a belch is an 'eructation')
December 2, 2008