Crossword clues for eructation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eructation \Er`uc*ta"tion\, n. [L. eructatio: cf. F.
The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"belching," 1530s, from Latin eructationem (nominative eructatio) "a belching forth," noun of action from past participle stem of eructare "to belch forth, vomit," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + ructare "to belch," from PIE *reug- "to belch" (cognates: Lithuanian rugiu "to belch," Greek eryge, Armenian orcam), which is probably imitative. Related: Eruct.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of belching, of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth. 2 An erumpent blast of gas, wind, or other matter ejected from earthy depths.
WordNet
Usage examples of "eructation".
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.
What coughing and gagging, what outrageous retching and hawking, what bursts and punctures of steam and gas, what eructations, what disgorgementsand the leaping plumes and flashes and pulsing brain-scans the flames made, until they relaxed and quieted, and began to breathe again.
There are, furthermore, the accompanying symptoms of a coated tongue, bitter taste in the mouth, unpleasant eructations, scalding of the throat from regurgitation, offensive breath, sick headache, giddiness, disturbed sleep, sallow countenance, heart-burn, morbid craving after food, constant anxiety and apprehension, fancied impotency, and fickleness.
Spit the toad, as Saint Tryphone of Bythinia once said to the demon-possessed daughter of Emperor Gordianus, thereby bringing on the most awesome eructation and setting the bells to ringing.
To be played on by any wind that blows, gale, zephyr, postcenal eructation.
This man spent only one night in the room, filling the silence with painful eructations, and thumping on the partition which separated him from my bed.
For a moment nothing was to be seen but tumbled water, and then there came belching up from below, with immense gulping noises, eructations of steam and air and petrol and fragments of canvas and woodwork and men.
The eructation and the borborygmy, the yellow eyeball and the pallid cheek betray too plainly where the trouble really lies.
These sounds were eternal, but louder here, and richer in eructation, because of the incredible squalor, as Demi explained.
There was no sound except for the eructations of the camel's digestive tract and the distant warbling of a desert owl.
The tall smokestack toppled with a ringing crash and a twanging of guy wires and a voluminous eructation of smuts, rust, scales and scurfs that enveloped the ship's entire upper works in a suffocating black cloud.
Climatic change triggered an acceleration in metabolism, and the ferment of the two suns brought forth eructations from the veins of the world: tremors, volcanic eruptions, subsidences, fumaroles, immense suppurations of lava.