Meaning of SPEW
| Pronunciation: | | spyoo
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- [v] 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"
- [v] eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate"
- [v] expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
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| | Synonyms: | | barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, eruct, honk, ptyalise, ptyalize, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew out, spit, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| | Antonyms: | | keep down | | |
| | See Also: | | cough out, cough up, discharge, egest, eject, eliminate, excrete, expectorate, expel, pass, pony up, release, spit out, spit up | |
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\Spew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spewed}; p. pr.& vb. n.
{Spewing}.] [OE. spewen, speowen, AS. sp[=i]wan;n to D.
spuwen to spit. OS & OHG. sp[=i]wan, G. speien, Icel. sp?ja
to spew, Sw. spy, Dan. spye, Goth. spiewan, th. spjauti, L.
spuere to split, Gr. ???, Skr. shtiv, shth[=i]v. Cf. {Pyke},
{Spit}.] [Written also {spue}.]
1. To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
2. To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold,
I will spew thee out of my mouth. --Rev. ii. 16.
\Spew\, v. i.
1. To vomit. --Chaucer.
2. To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
\Spew\, n.
That which is vomited; vomit.
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