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/bˈɛltʃɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Belch v. t. (past & past part. belched; pres. part. belching)

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct. "I belched a hurricane of wind."

To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent. "Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame."

Belch v. i.

To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

To issue with spasmodic force or noise.

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Etymology of 'Belching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Belching" Quotes from Famous Books

... distance we saw one of our tanks stuck in the German wire, which at that point was about a hundred yards thick. Smoke was belching from every porthole. A shell had registered a direct hit, exploding the petrol, and the tank was on fire. We ...

— Life in a Tank • Richard Haigh

... it is a lion belching," answered Lionel; "but there's some other animal, and we must be ready to fire or ...

— Hendricks the Hunter - The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand • W.H.G. Kingston

... the sun was hidden; the air darkened; the whole dull, dismayed aspect of things, as if some neighboring volcano, belching its premonitory smoke, were about to whelm the great town, as Herculaneum and Pompeii, or the Cities of the Plain. And as they had been upturned in terror towards the mountain, all faces were more or less snowed or spotted with soot. Nor marble, nor flesh, nor the sad spirit of man, ...

— Israel Potter • Herman Melville

... instant there burst upon our eyes a sight that made every heart stand still. Rushing around the curve, snorting and tearing, came an engine and several gravel cars. The train appeared to be putting forth every effort to go faster. Nearer it came, belching forth smoke and whistling long ...

— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker

... was all fresh and beautiful once," he said; "and now—it is Gehenna. Down that way—nothing but pot-banks and chimneys belching fire and dust into the face of heaven...But what does it matter? An end comes, an end to all this cruelty...To-morrow." He spoke the last word in ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

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