Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of belching.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A belching of wind from the stomach; a belch.
- n. A violent bursting forth or ejection of matter from the earth.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of belching, of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth.
- n. An erumpent blast of gas, wind, or other matter ejected from earthy depths.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
- n. A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
- n. (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
Examples
“Methanogens are microbes that make methane gas Cows also make methane in their stomachs and burp it out, this is called eructation - I though you'd like to know.”
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Sounds, Sasquatch, Stupidity, and Specters
“If faux erudition and willful misreading set your pants on fire, go have a bonfire with this lengthy eructation of ill conceived, frequently picayune argument contra James Wood’s How Fiction Works.”
“Jameson over at the Big Idea attacks him for, in what I considered at the time to be a lengthy eructation of ill conceived, frequently picayune argument, unworthy of response.”
“But that eructation that day was in a different league.”
“And finally Christopher Hitchens will deliver a poisonous eructation at book-length in The Devil is Not Great.”
“I produced a 4-minute pilot episode of a children's cartoon called "Cow-a-dunga!" that addresses methane flatulance and eructation but in a funny way...”
“Of, relating to, or associated with lakes. “… it is conceivably extraneous even to the concept of a sea, or at any rate of waves, no matter if fluvial or lacustrine or of any other body of water, …” eructation.”
“Mr.P. is sullen, and seems to mistake an eructation for the breaking of wind backwards.”
“The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon repletion.”
“There may be a feeling of fullness due to gas, frequent belching or flatulence, bad breath, repeated eructation, and even occasional vomiting.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eructation’.
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Burroughs
Detestable words
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog 2013
eructation, hubris, vanquish, interminably, loge, a fortiori, virtuosity, incunabulum, savoir-faire, doleful, complicity, loquacious and 2 more...
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Words That Mean Things
I found most of these words in books! That means they MUST be good.
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Good Words
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euphonic logorrhea
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
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NTDW1
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for eructation.
Casey "Two long trenches of flesh on Yagharek's shoulderblades were twisted and red with tissue that looked as if it were boiling. Slice marks spread like small veins from the main eructations of ugly healing." From Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Sep 22, 2011
yarb I like wiktionary's erumpent blast and earthy depths as well. Well done wiktionary! Apr 25, 2011
reesetee I also like "earthy depths" (same definition). Apr 25, 2011
ruzuzu I do, however, adore Wiktionary's "erumpent blast." Apr 25, 2011
ruzuzu I hate it when CD 1 feels like CD 2. Apr 25, 2011
bilby You prefer CD 1? Apr 25, 2011
ruzuzu I hate the ones that are like the second definition from the Century Dictionary. Apr 25, 2011
jorge999
young boys like
showing off their eructations Nov 6, 2009
john "Eructation of unhealthy souls
Into the faded air..."
Burt Norton, Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot Dec 7, 2007
penhaligonblue Discovered in T.S. Eliot's 'Burnt Norton'. Dec 7, 2007
sonofgroucho Burping or belching are briefer and better. Apr 1, 2007