Belch (Verb)
Meaning 1
Expel gas from the stomach; "Please don't burp at the table".
Classification
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.
Examples
- After drinking the carbonated soda, he couldn't help but belch loudly in the middle of the meeting.
- She discreetly raised her hand to her mouth and tried to stifle a belch during the formal dinner.
- If you eat too quickly, you may swallow air and belch later.
- The man let out a massive belch after finishing his fifth can of beer.
- He belched so forcefully that it startled the sleeping dog lying on the couch next to him.
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Meaning 2
Become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- Mount Etna is known to belch forth molten lava during eruptive phases.
- Years of pressure built up before the volcano would belch out its fury upon the town.
- Volcanologists waited anxiously as the mountain began to belch smoke and ash into the atmosphere.
- Scientists studied the patterns that occurred before a volcano would belch massive amounts of lava.
- The earth shuddered and shook as the once dormant volcano began to belch forth superheated rocks.