disgorged

verb

past tense of disgorge
as in ejected
to violently throw out or off (something from within) the volcano disgorged lava in a spectacular nighttime show

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Recent Examples of disgorged The tourists are already lined up, disgorged from the buses, on their cells. — Karl Kirchwey, The New York Review of Books, 13 Nov. 2025 And yet, the sands of Montana seem to have disgorged a second one. — Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025 Their whiskey was disgorged before being entered into secondary, new American oak barrels that received light char and medium toast. — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 Tanker trucks were hijacked and found later, empty, their liquid-gold cargo evidently disgorged into some gas station’s underground tanks. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026 And yet your sufferings would come to an end in a mere fifty-seven hours, or whenever the train disgorged you, while the sufferings of Gunnar’s daughter would probably end only with her death. — Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026 That said, the amount of market cap being accumulated and disgorged daily by the massive tech platform companies isn’t entirely comforting. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2025 Sometimes passengers are disgorged onto melting pavement to await their next Tunnel Tesla in the desert city’s 100-degree heat. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026 Musk amended that proposal in a second filing this month, saying instead that any funds disgorged from OpenAI and its executives should go to OpenAI’s charitable arm. — David Ingram, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgorged
  1. ejected
  2. erupted
  3. expelled
  4. belched
  5. emitted
  6. spit
  7. spewed
  8. poured
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  • San Diego’s manager Craig Stammen and coach Ryan Goins were ejected three pitches into the game after arguing a check-swing call.
    — Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Balogun, a star striker who has scored three goals so far in this year’s tournament, received a red card and was ejected from last week’s US game against Bosnia and Herzegovina for a foul against a defender.
    — Yash Roy, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Definition of ejected
Verb
  • Nine months after the revolution, the war between Iran and Iraq erupted in September 1980, lasting eight years and costing more than a million lives.
    — Mahsa Alimardani, Time, 6 July 2026
  • Spontaneous applause erupted — and even some tears were shed — at the battered parking structure where Gil had been entombed since the two temblors struck within seconds of each other on June 24.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of erupted
Verb
  • Charles scored in the semi-final against Middlesbrough before Tonda Eckert’s side was expelled from contention by the English Football League for attempting to spy on their opponents.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Any college student who supports the organizations will be immediately expelled.
    — Romy Ellenbogen Herald, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
Definition of expelled
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  • For decades, Saarland’s foundries and furnaces belched black into the sky.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026
  • The rare isotope is mostly locked away deep within our world’s innards, but vanishingly small quantities are belched out in volcanic eruptions and through natural gas pipelines.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
Definition of belched
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  • The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, is a specialized space observatory built for studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), beams that are emitted from dying stars, from a low orbit.
    — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 5 July 2026
  • Wrap whole or partially cut cucumbers in plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator's crisper drawer to prevent deterioration from ethylene gas emitted by other produce.
    — Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 2 July 2026
Definition of emitted
Verb
  • And then there were watermelon-eating and seed-spitting contests and old fashioned sack races.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
  • One significant problem, however, is that red dwarfs spit out harmful torrents of radiation in fierce gusts of their stellar winds, which can strip away a planet's atmosphere.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of spit
Verb
  • Its results spewed from a transactional firehose Tuesday morning.
    — Dan Woike, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • While France made a strong effort to reverse course in recent years, the European nation has spewed a cumulative total of about 40 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions throughout its history.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 1 July 2026
Definition of spewed
Verb
  • Local 150’s president chairs political committees that have poured money into the campaign of Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, a likely 2027 mayoral challenger.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Long before venture capital poured money into AI, decades of federal research also helped build the computing and machine-learning advances that made these systems possible.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of poured

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“Disgorged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgorged. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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