disgorge

From Middle French desgorger.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɡɔːdʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ

disgorge (third-person singular simple present disgorges, present participle disgorging, simple past and past participle disgorged)

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.

   • 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:

     They loudly laughed / To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:

     The set disgorges most of its passengers at Waverley [Edinburgh], so finding a table seat in the front car isn't a problem.

2. (law) To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
3. (oenology) To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise.

• disgorgement

• gorge
• engorge

• regurgitate

• geogrids