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De - Pt| English Dictionary: disgorging | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgorged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disgorging}.] [F. d[82]gorger, earlier desgorger; pref. d[82]-, 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. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. --Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. --Dryden. 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. | |
