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/dɪsgˈɔrdʒ/ Listen

verb

Disgorge v. t. (past & past part. disgorged; pres. part. disgorging)

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. "This mountain when it rageth,... casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone." "They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught."

To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.

Disgorge v. i. To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution. "See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths Into the sea."

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Etymology of 'Disgorge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disgorge" Quotes from Famous Books

... for having tried to help you even in this accidental way, before I knew how strong were your objections to help from me. Nobody knows this but myself. Even Mr. Dodd thinks my father advanced the money. The ten dollars the rascal would have kept, but I made him disgorge it. I did it all while you were looking for the letter in the woods. Pray forget all about it, and any pain you may have had from ...

— Jeff Briggs's Love Story • Bret Harte

... in any considerable force, messengers were forthwith despatched to the "auld toon," especially to the filthy alleys and closes of the High Street, which forthwith would disgorge swarms of bare-headed and bare-footed "callants," who, with gestures wild and "eldrich screech and hollo," might frequently be seen pouring down the sides of the hill. I have seen upwards of a thousand engaged on either side in these frays, which I have no doubt were full as desperate as the fights ...

— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

... to disgorge his plunder, and the boys were highly gratified when Jeffries handed over the watches and money the tramp had so coolly taken ...

— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon

... home in high feather, singing tipsy catches and assaulting the watch on his way. The chorus of Wasps, the visible embodiment of a metaphor found also in Plato's 'Republic,' symbolizes the sting used by the Athenian jurymen to make the rich disgorge a portion of their gathered honey. The 'Plaideurs' of Racine is an imitation of this play; and the motif of the committal of the dog is borrowed by Ben Jonson ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner

... cautious Witherspoon, as he registered at the Hoffman House. "Somebody may know me; and no human being must see Clayton and I together in New York! One chance spy and Hugh Worthington would be on his defense, and I would then lose my place in a jiffy and all power to make him disgorge." ...

— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage

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