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Verb spew has 3 senses
- spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue - expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
--1 is one way to expectorate, cough up, cough out, spit up, spit out
Sample sentence:
The women spew water into the bowl
- spew, spew out, eruct - eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate"
--2 is one way to discharge, expel, eject, release
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up - eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
--3 is one way to excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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