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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eructate.

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Examples

  • The Badawi who eructates as a civility, has a mortal hatred to a crepitus ventris; and were a by-stander to laugh at its accidental occurrence, he would at once be cut down as a “pundonor.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She proudly eructates in public & then expects praise for her “accomplishment.”

    a change of register… 2004

  • Through that called Udana one eructates and is enabled to speak in consequence of its piercing through (the lungs, the throat, and the mouth).

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • And from its gape a burp of white phosphorus eructates, to hover over the bound land, over our occupied mother: where I may step only the path which they have signed and arrowed; not wander to her spirit-haunted folds; may not embrace her, whom their mines strip, whom their power-lines strap down.

    New Verse News 2009

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