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SPEW

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Example:

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Synonyms:

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "spew" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

spewer (a person who vomits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical

Example:

The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate

Synonyms:

eruct; spew; spew out

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "spew" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth

Example:

The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer

Synonyms:

ptyalise; ptyalize; spew; spit; spue

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "spew" is one way to...):

cough out; cough up; expectorate; spit out; spit up (discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The women spew water into the bowl

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