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/bˈɛltʃɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Belch v. t. (past & past part. belched; pres. part. belching)

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct. "I belched a hurricane of wind."

To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent. "Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame."

Belch v. i.

To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

To issue with spasmodic force or noise.

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Etymology of 'Belching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Belching" Quotes from Famous Books

... striking objects around him. When the living pterodactyls had disappeared the memory of them was preserved; some new features were added, and the imagination went so far as to endow them with the power of belching forth smoke and flames. Thus the dragon idea pervaded the minds of men, and instead of a natural animal it became a ...

— A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder • James De Mille

... comparatively even chronicle of the earth. The Permian period transformed the face of the earth; it lifted the low-lying land into a massive relief, drew mantles of ice over millions of miles of its surface, set volcanoes belching out fire and fumes in many parts, stripped it of its great forests, and slew the overwhelming majority of its animals. On the scale of geological time it ...

— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

... "extravagance" enters the situation instead of the dialogue, we have episodes such as the final scene of the Ps., where the name character is irrelevantly introduced (1246) in a state of intoxication which, with copious belching in Simo's face, culminates in a rebellion of the overloaded stomach (1294). We can scarcely doubt that such business was carried out in ultra-graphic detail and rewarded by copious guffaws from the populace. In sharp contrast to this, the drunkenness of ...

— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • William Wallace Blancke

... passing and belching of gas, colicky pain, disturbed sleep, greenish stools with mucus, are among the more prominent earmarks of unsuccessful nursing. These symptoms appearing in a pale, flabby, listless, indifferent or cross baby, with ...

— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... refined as well as enlarged by certain methods in education. This, when blown up to its perfection, ought not to be covetously boarded up, stifled, or hid under a bushel, but freely communicated to mankind. Upon these reasons, and others of equal weight, the wise AEolists affirm the gift of belching to be the noblest act of a rational creature. To cultivate which art, and render it more serviceable to mankind, they made use of several methods. At certain seasons of the year you might behold the priests amongst them in vast numbers ...

— A Tale of a Tub • Jonathan Swift

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