belch
verb (used without object)
to eject stomach gas noisily from the mouth; burp.
had belched
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past perfectof belch.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For nearly a century, the battery recycling plant had belched poisons such as lead and arsenic into the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
Isaiah Morris was eating at noted fine dining establishment Taco Bell on Sunday when another man in the restaurant demanded to know whether he had belched without saying “excuse me.”
From Time ● Mar. 20, 2014
Professor Alessandro Malladra of the Vesuvius Observatory estimated that Etna had belched 523,000,000 cubic yards of lava.
From Time Magazine Archive
For centuries 63this extinct volcano had belched forth its lava, building up the frowning heights of Apache Leap; and then once more the earth had subsided and the waters of the ocean had rushed in.
From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge
Behind me was the black, slippery, hair-cloth chair which had belched me forth, much as the whale served Jonah.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 by Henry James
