The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgorged; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgorging.] [F. d['e]gorger, earlier desgorger; pref. d['e]-, des- (L. dis-) + gorge. See Gorge.]
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To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.
This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.
--Hakluyt.They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.
--Dryden. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.
Wiktionary
n. The act of something being disgorged. vb. (present participle of disgorge English)
Usage examples of "disgorging".
He had done similar service to other lovers similarly circumstanced, and had disposed them in various wild scenes which he and his men had discovered in their flittings from place to place, supplying them with all necessaries and comforts from the reluctant disgorgings of fat abbots and usurers.