1
as in to pour
to flow out in great quantities or with force
water spewing violently from the broken pipe
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2
as in to spit
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
a volcano spewing out lava
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3
as in to vomit
to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"I'm going to spew right here in the car if you don't pull over!" she wailed to her friend
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Recent Examples of spew
Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles, spewing smoke, destroying homes, closing roads, and forcing thousands of people to evacuate.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 8 Jan. 2025
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
As one notable example, some shrimp vomit light-making chemicals, creating a luminescent spew to fend off predators.
—Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
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Verb
Still, emergency officials allowed residents to trickle back into their neighborhoods starting Thursday but cautioned them to be careful as hissing gas lines continued to spew fires from leveled properties and a thick layer of smoke hung over the area.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles, spewing smoke, destroying homes, closing roads, and forcing thousands of people to evacuate.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
That’s a persuasive contrast in Rose’s favor, but the contrast working against him is between the words the gregarious Rose spews and the truth.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
As one notable example, some shrimp vomit light-making chemicals, creating a luminescent spew to fend off predators.
—Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spew
Verb
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However, sticking to her overall intention with the film, Berg draws a line between this technical skill and Buckley’s ethereal spirit, which, having been raised by a single mother, contained both masculine and feminine features and poured love onto others with reckless abandon.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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Reactions from social media poured in after the video hit the internet, with most netizens singing the exact same tune.—
Marc Griffin,
VIBE.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Within a few months of starting classes in 2021, Depa, then 16, had been suspended several times for pushing a teacher’s aide, spitting at another student, yelling at teachers and being aggressive toward staff.—
Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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The sun spits out a flare or coronal mass ejection (an explosion of solar material) that reaches Earth’s atmosphere.—
Amanda Kooser,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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If inhaled or ingested, benzene can lead to nausea and vomiting in the short term and may cause cancer over time.—
Hiroko Tabuchi,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Vomiting: Consuming excessive amounts of Delta-8 can trigger nausea and vomiting by overstimulating nausea-regulating brain areas.—
Rowan Briggs,
The Mercury News,
17 Jan. 2025
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His importance to the team is immense, which is why the front office and coaching staff gush about his role.—
Tony East,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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From inside, Goss tried to push the door open, but a gush of water poured in.—
Chris Kenning,
USA TODAY,
30 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Hed warns that rushing into adoption without proper safeguards could backfire.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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When Flora opened the door, Dani rushed in and fell on Flora’s bunk, dramatically throwing the flyers everywhere.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The two wildfires, which erupted on Jan. 7 about 40 miles apart, are the second and third most destructive fires in California’s history and killed 28 people, officials said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2025
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The Hughes fire, which erupted last week, prompted additional evacuations and has charred more than 10,000 acres.—
Steven P. Dinkin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
Verb
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In the match of legal dodgeball that the David Zaslav and Shari Redstone-run conglomerates have been hurling at each other the past few months, WBD are now moving to have Paramount’s partial motion to dismiss tossed out.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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Young sets the pair strange tasks, like hurling uncooked dough at a wall (possibly a reference to letting the people eat cake) or kissing each other through that same lump of dough, or screaming in an audience member’s face.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2025
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Water spouts from the mouths of Shrek's ogre offspring whilst the display is crowned by Toothless, the cat-like dragon from the How To Train Your Dragon movies.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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During high tide, waves spray skyward through limestone rock crevices, creating natural water spouts and giving the preserve its name.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2025
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“Spew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spew. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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