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The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth
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disgorgement
Word definitions for disgorgement in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth [syn: vomit , vomiting , emesis , regurgitation , puking ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Disgorgement is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as "the act of giving up something (such as profits illegally obtained) on demand or by legal compulsion." Disgorgement is a remedy used in U.S. securities law ; for example, disgorgement of short-swing ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disgorgement \Dis*gorge"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]gorgement.] The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. --Bp. Hall.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of disgorge, particularly in the legal sense.
Usage examples of disgorgement.
The Moonlight Cove Police department's ability to access TRW's data base at will had to be a secret kept from TRW itself, for the company would not have cooperated in a wholesale disgorgement of its files without a subpoena.
Simon took advantage of the disgorgement to cross the patio alone and greet the girl as she came out.
He would have demanded it, ticket or not, and gotten the manager or the nearest official available at that time of night and made enough fuss either to force the disgorgement of the package or to make the entire hotel aware of the problem.
Now the disgorgement was more than three times as great, an unheard of 1,210,000.
He was down on all fours, blinded and splattered by his own disgorgement, but still holding on to the loudspeaker and cursing between racking spasms.
It opened, and a very natty though puffy young man came out, bearing what looked like the disgorgements of one of the hotel computers.
It's an intense circulation of alien pains and pleasures, of unknown powers and vulnerabilities, of surprising engulfments and disgorgements.