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Word entry · 5 letters

belch

Best crossword clue

"Release stomach gas"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɛltʃ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bcehlStarts with BEnds with H1 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2E3L4C5H

Definitions

  1. expel gas from the stomach

Word origin

From Middle English belchen, from Old English bielċan, from Proto-Germanic *balkijaną, *belkaną, probably ultimately of imitative origin.

Used in a sentence

  • 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.
  • 1746, attributed to Jonathan Swift, "A Love Poem form a Physician to his Mistress," http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14353/pg14353-images.html When I an amorous kiss design'd, I belch'd a hurricane of wind.
  • She eats too fast, belches behind a cupped hand, smiles.

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