Crossword clues for belching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belch \Belch\ (b[e^]lch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belched (b[e^]lch); p. pr. & vb. n. Belching.] [OE. belken, AS. bealcan, akin to E. bellow. See Bellow, v. i.]
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To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
I belched a hurricane of wind.
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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.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. The act of producing a belch. vb. (present participle of belch English)
WordNet
n. the forceful expulsion of something from inside; "the belching of smoke from factory chimneys"
a reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth [syn: belch, burp, burping, eructation]
Usage examples of "belching".
Hence, the palpitation of the heart, dyspepsia or acute attacks of indigestion, with colicky pains and heaviness after meals, with eructations or belchings of gas, or local discomfort and unnatural action affecting, at different times, almost every organ of the body.
Between slopes of pine, the belching semitruck squeezed toward the crushed rock shoulder, allowing traffic to go around.
Star Destroyers were belching fire and falling away one after another.
A landscape of endless sheds and factories, with thick black smoke belching up from the slaughterhouse incinerators, as bones and hooves and other nonessentials were melted down to make glue.
By the time she hit the fourth wave, the massive vessel was belching fire from its drop hatches and raining shards of yorik coral from its hull.
Blackthorn Inn was a blazing wreck, its upper floor an inferno, its roof gone, swept away by the fire and smoke belching up into the night sky.
This icy atmosphere would almost certainly have been formed from volcanoes belching forth water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases, as was our own.
With three rocket nozzles in its underbelly belching flame, the machine leapt into space, accelerating as fast as a heavy cruiser under full power as it climbed to meet the approaching enemy MS unit.
It was still belching the strange mist and was so close that he could visually make out what looked like a Normal Suited figure, standing erect on the upper deck, firing awaywith a rifle, of all things.
And following them, with flames belching from their main engines, came the newly allied force of eight Zeon and Federation ships.
At last, what with a round of blasphemy, and the whole crowd with clay pistols belching smoke and fire and slander of their neighbours, and the floor already befouled with dregs and spittle, I feared lest viler deeds should happen, and craved to depart.
I was reminded of the splattings and belchings of Sulphur Springs, in St Lucia (land of Thelonius's fathers).
Nature—mostly through the belchings of volcanoes and the decay of plants—sends about 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, nearly thirty times as much as we do with our cars and factories.
No news out of Hamlin, save only some irregular psychic belchings and rumblings.
The air had been black and turgid, corrupt with the belchings of volcanism, and blue skies had lain far in the future.