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belching

  • present participle of belch.

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AFP journalists heard blasts in Bahrain's capital Manama, and saw black smoke belching from a major oil terminal in the United Arab Emirates port city of Fujairah.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

This amount of air depends on the balance between the intake, production and elimination of gas through belching, flatulence or its consumption by the intestinal microbiota.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2024

Down on Estonia’s southern border with Latvia, ageing British Challenger 2 tanks and other 1980s-era armoured vehicles lurch over farmland, belching exhaust fumes into the clear spring air.

From BBC • May 31, 2024

The chimneys belching black smoke deliver a shock.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

The tug bore down on their shell, belching black smoke, its whistle shrieking, its horn blaring.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown