Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of belch.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
  • noun the forceful expulsion of something from inside

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Examples

  • The funky taste in the belching is gone, and I don't have the urge to run to the bathroom so my ass can do it's award-winning impression of the "Mentos in the Diet Coke" videos ...

    January 7th, 2009 cobie 2009

  • The locals laughed and assured me that the belching is normal

    A change of plans 2003

  • The locals laughed and assured me that the belching is normal

    A change of plans 2003

  • The locals laughed and assured me that the belching is normal

    A change of plans 2003

  • The chimney of the new house, in short, belching forth its kitchen smoke, impregnated the whole air with the scent of meats, fowls, and fishes, spicily concocted with odoriferous herbs, and onions in abundance.

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

  • The chimney of the new house, in short, belching forth its kitchen-smoke, impregnated the whole air with the scent of meats, fowls, and fishes, spicily concocted with odoriferous herbs and onions in abundance.

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

  • The chimney of the new house, in short, belching forth its kitchen-smoke, impregnated the whole air with the scent of meats, fowls, and fishes, spicily concocted with odoriferous herbs and onions in abundance.

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

  • The chimney of the new house, in short, belching forth its kitchen smoke, impregnated the whole air with the scent of meats, fowls, and fishes, spicily concocted with odoriferous herbs, and onions in abundance.

    House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Since you cannot describe what you have done, I would call belching loudly to interrupt our class an unspeakable act.

    The View from Saturday E. L. Konigsburg 1996

  • As she weighed up her matchmaker's assurances that this man was not "belching" or "rough talking" and had been Ivy League-educated, "Sheldon" started dating another woman.

    The Case Against Settling 2010

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