Definitions for SPEW
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spueverb

   expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth

   "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"

2. spew, spew out, eructverb

   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"

3. vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw upverb

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spewnoun

   vomit or sick

2. spewnoun

   ejaculate

3. spewverb

   to eject forcibly and in a stream

4. spewverb

   to vomit

5. spewverb

   to ejaculate

6. spewverb

   to laugh unexpectedly while drinking, causing drink to exit the nose

7. Etymology: From spiwan, from spīwanan; cognate to the German speien. Cognate with Albanian shpih,shpif.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To SPEWverb

   Etymology: spewan , Saxon; speuwen, Dutch.

   1. To vomit; to eject from the stomach.

   A swordfish small him from the rest did sunder,
   That in his throat him pricking softly under
   His wide abyss, him forced forth to spew,
   That all the sea did roar like heaven’s thunder,
   And all the waves were stain’d with filthy hue. Edmund Spenser.

   2. To eject; to cast forth.

   When earth with slime and mud is cover’d o’er,
   Or hollow places spew their wat’ry store. John Dryden, Georg.

   When yellow sands are sifted from below,
   The glitt’ring billows give a golden show;
   And when the fouler bottom spews the black,
   The Stygian dye the tainted waters take. Dryden.

   3. To eject with loathing.

   Keep my statutes, and commit not any of these abominations, that the land spew not you out. Lev. xviii. 28.

   Contentious suits ought to be spewed out, as the surfeit of courts. Francis Bacon, Essays.

2. To Spewverb

   To vomit; to ease the stomach.

   He could have haul’d in
   The drunkards, and the noises of the inn;
   But better ’twas that they should sleep or spew,
   Than in the scene to offend or him or you. Ben Jonson.

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1. spew

   Spew generally refers to expelling or ejecting a large amount of substance quickly and forcefully. This could refer either to a substance ejecting from a source (like a geyser spewing water) or to a person expelling something (like words or emotions). Spew is often used to convey a sense of overabundance or lack of control.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spewverb

   to eject from the stomach; to vomit

2. Spewverb

   to cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject

3. Spewverb

   to vomit

4. Spewverb

   to eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost

5. Spewnoun

   that which is vomited; vomit

6. Etymology: [OE. spewen, speowen, AS. spwan;n to D. spuwen to spit. OS & OHG. spwan, G. speien, Icel. spja to spew, Sw. spy, Dan. spye, Goth. spiewan, th. spjauti, L. spuere to split, Gr. , Skr. shtiv, shthv. Cf. Pyke, Spit.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spew

   Spue, spū, v.t. and v.i. to vomit: to eject with loathing.—ns. Spew′er; Spew′iness, moistness.—adj. Spew′y, boggy. [A.S. spíwan; Dut. spuwen, Ger. speien; also L. spuĕre, Gr. ptyein.]

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1. SPEW

   What does SPEW stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the SPEW acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Eject
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Anagrams for SPEW »

1. pews

2. swep

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of SPEW in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of SPEW in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of SPEW in a Sentence

1. Orrin Hatch:

   Listen—I’ve honored you by allowing you to start off here and what you said is not right – that’s all I’m saying. I come from the lower middle class originally and we didn’t have anything, so don’t spew that stuff on me. I get a little tired of that crap.

2. Noah Horowitz:

   This is another senseless and illegal Trump administration rollback that will needlessly hike our energy bills and spew tons more pollution into the air, harming the health of our children and the environment.

3. Ron Brooks:

   They're the ones you hear about jumping up and hitting people and even breaking bones sometimes, they spew blood and mucus as a stress response. If they land in your boat, they'll be flopping around, and they'll get slime around.

4. The Hill reported.Jon Voight:

   Donald Trump has no bull to sell, and everyone will discover the bull most politicians spew out is for their own causes and benefits.

5. David Petraeus:

   Until it is capped, it is going to continue to spew radioactive instability and extremist ideology over the entire region, any strategy to stabilize the region thus needs to take into account the challenges in both Iraq and Syria. It is not sufficient to say that we'll figure them out later.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=SPEW
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Spew
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=SPEW
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SPEW
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=SPEW