to spew
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5.1
- verb
- /spjuː/
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- All around you, lava is spewing forth from craters and cracks in the ground.
- spew lava
- volcanoes spew
- spew forth
No, this person, by the sounds of that garbage they spewed isn't very nice.
- No, this person, by the sounds of that garbage they spewed isn't very nice.
- Like, why are they still spewing this nonsense on us, right?
- University presidents allow the Jew hatred to be spewed on the campus quad.
- I watch people in here that employ people love to spew blame on everybody but themselves.
- So it was like gave these guys carte blanche to just spew out whatever they wanted.
- They're just on there spewing out blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- I'm going to try to be as like unbiased here and like not spew negativity.
- And yes, he gets ahead of himself a lot, and he spews some absolute nonsense very frequently.
- It's, it's, it's the, it's the mountain, you know, spewing water or that's the source of the river.
- Please don't, you know, spew your aerosols indoors at parties without any mitigation.
- And so you had these two contenders, right, both of which are spewing bullshit and these poor people.
Examples
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Flooding would cause canisters to crack and spew radioactivity into the environment.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Kilauea volcano has been spewing lava all weekend.
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I watched the car spew up a cloud of blue smoke.
Fiction book (1996) -
And then money spews out of their brains, right?
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So why is it spewing oceans into space?
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A plume of ash spews from the top of the island's highest mountain.
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All this while, Jody's truck was idling in the driveway, spewing out clouds of exhaust.
Fiction book (1990) -
Initiate pre-ignition sequence. The Phoenix engines at the base of the ship begin spewing nitrogen gas.
Fiction book (1994) -
If you're spewing anxiety and agitation, that's only going to make it worse.
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The volcano has been spewing ash and smoke since last night.
Synonyms
20
4.1
Push a liquid or other substance out of something
18
2.9
Move out of a building in large numbers
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5.9
To force out large amounts of something like smoke or words
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3.7
To flow out quickly and forcefully in a strong stream
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3.1
To come out suddenly in a strong stream
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3.0
To come out in a narrow strong stream of liquid or gas
To send out something suddenly and strongly, like smoke or words
To send out a sudden thin stream of liquid
To force liquid out quickly in a narrow stream, like blood or water
To come out in a thin fast stream, like water from a bottle
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Etymology
The word spew comes from an old English word meaning 'to spit', and you can think of it like a heavy 'spout' or the common word spit but much stronger. So spew can mean to force out large amounts quickly, like water from a broken pipe or smoke from a factory.