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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
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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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