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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

disgorge
    v 1: cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or
         over; "spill the beans all over the table" [syn: spill,
         shed, disgorge]
    2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
       drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
       continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him
       last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
       sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
       puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
       regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. i.
   To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make
   restitution.
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         See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths
         Into the sea.                            --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.]
   1. 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.
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            This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth
            huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.    --Hakluyt.
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            They loudly laughed
            To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny
            draught.                              --Dryden.
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   2. 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.
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Thesaurus Results for disgorge:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abandon, abjure, barf, be seasick, be sick, belch, blow open, blow out, break out, bring up, burst forth, burst out, cast, cast forth, cede, chuck up, debouch, decant, discharge, disembogue, dispense with, dispose of, do without, drop, dump, egest, ejaculate, eject, eruct, erupt, exhaust, expel, extravasate, feed the fish, forgo, forswear, gag, get along without, get rid of, give away, give up, have done with, heave, heave the gorge, hurl forth, irrupt, jet, keck, kiss good-bye, make a sacrifice, outpour, part with, pour, pour forth, pour out, puke, quitclaim, recant, regurgitate, reject, relinquish, render up, renounce, resign, retch, retract, sacrifice, send forth, send out, sick up, spare, spew, spout, spurt, squirt, surrender, swear off, throw out, throw up, upchuck, vacate, vomit, waive, yield

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