spew
spew
Definition
spew (spyo̵̅o̅)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
- to throw up (something) from or as from the stomach; vomit
- to flow or cause to flow plentifully; gush
Etymology: ME spewen < OE spiwan, akin to Ger speien, Goth speiwan < IE base *(s)p(h)yēu- > L spuere, to vomit, Gr ptyein, to spit
noun
something spewed; vomit
spew′er noun
spew
Synonyms
spew
Usage Examples
Object
- lava: That means there is little chance of the mountain spewing lava.
- ash: Live webcams, thermal satellite images, and animated snap-shots capture scenes of spewing ash and red-hot lava flow.
- cloud: There he saw a crematory building with huge chambers spewing black clouds of smoke into the sky.
- smoke: Arranged in an odd figure of eight formation were numerous tall towers, each spewing black smoke, which had an odd greenish tinge.
- blood: The final nightmare is missing a nice close-up of the father's head spewing frothy blood from his ax wound.
- rock: That settles matters, tonight we leave the bimini up to protect us from any wayward spewed volcanic rocks.
Preposition: into
- atmosphere: These gases and the poisons are spewed into the atmosphere, to the air, which we breathe.
Modifying Another Word
- forth: The opened bottle spewed forth foam, with a head like an ice cream float.
- just: The hatred just spews from its mouth like a waterfall.
- then: The backup video player pondered it and then spewed bits of tape about and gave up even more finally.
- still: The new images suggest that the neutron star at the cloud's center may still spew out bursts of energy.
- now: Up to 30 per cent of spam is now spewing from hijacked " zombie " PCs.
- not: The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: There's a special intensity about the passion that an England v Germany tie spews up.
Particle object:
- smoke: The landscape was once littered with horrific factories spewing out filthy black smoke into the atmosphere, leaving it permanently enveloped in black gloom.
- poison: I could put on a show of force - Order volcanoes to spew out poison, Have tectonic plates tear them to shreds.
- nonsense: But they spew out so much nonsense, it saddens me that people give them so much attention.
- gas: Short period comets make hundreds to thousands of passes around the Sun spewing out gas and dust.
- dogma: Finally, Basil spewed out the dogmas of his heresy.
Preposition: from
- mouth: He closed his eyes then, and a wall of fire spewed forth from the cave mouth.
spew Quotes
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Browse dictionary entries near spew
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- -spermous
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- spermophile
- spermogonium
- spermo-
- spermiogenesis
- spermine
- Spezia
- SPF
- sphacelate
- sphagnum
- sphalerite
- sphene
- spheno-
- sphenodon
- sphenogram
- sphenoid
