What is another word for spews?

Pronunciation: [spjˈuːz] (IPA)

The term spews refers to the act of forcefully ejecting something from the mouth or any other opening. There are several synonymous expressions that describe this explosive action, such as vomiting, regurgitating, retching, disgorging, hurling, expelling, ejecting, and throwing up. Each of these words carries slightly different connotations and shades of meaning, but all of them capture the sudden and involuntary nature of this bodily function. Spewing can also be used more figuratively to describe an outpouring of emotions, ideas, or words. In these cases, one might also use phrases like gushing, pouring out, or disgorging.

Usage examples for Spews

War breaks his shell, and spews him forth alone Into a world most savagely his own!
"I Run with the Fox"
Mona Gould
Everytime he opens his mouth new wisdom spews forth.
"Earthsmith"
Milton Lesser
The crux of the ever difficult problem,-the precise division of responsibility between society and the wretch whom it spews out of its mouth,-is brought clearly into view, but without any attempt at an exact solution.
"The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller"
Calvin Thomas

Famous quotes with Spews

  • To go on means going from here, means finding me, losing me, vanishing and beginning again, a stranger first, then little by little the same as always, in another place, where I shall say I have always been, of which I shall know nothing, being incapable of seeing, moving, thinking, speaking, but of which little by little, in spite of these handicaps, I shall begin to know something, just enough for it to turn out to be the same place as always, the same which seems made for me and does not want me, which I seem to want and do not want, take your choice, which spews me out or swallows me up, I’ll never know, which is perhaps merely the inside of my distant skull where once I wandered, now am fixed, lost for tininess, or straining against the walls, with my head, my hands, my feet, my back, and ever murmuring my old stories, my old story, as if it were the first time.
    Samuel Beckett
  • “And then along came Satan’s Eye Itself. Television.” He laughed, as at some fatal irony. “Don’t you hear the evil hum of the word, the knell of Satan? Television! It’s the ruling character of your lives, like the moon must have been for Indians. An oracle, a companion, a signal of the changing seasons. But rather than divine illumination, each night it spews forth Satan’s imagery. Murders, car crashes, mad policemen, perverted strangers! And you lie there decomposing in its flickering, blue-gray light, absorbing His horrid fantasies!”
    Lucius Shepard

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