Word
spewing
Phoneticsspew·ing
US/ˈspjuɪŋ/
UK/spjˈuːɪŋ/
Definition
v. to flow or pour out quickly and in large amounts. You use this to describe things like smoke from a fire or liquid from a broken pipe.
v. to expel or eject large quantities of a substance rapidly and forcibly. Often used to describe the emission of pollutants, fluids, or, metaphorically, aggressive speech.
Examples
“The old factory was spewing black smoke into the air.”
“After the pipe burst, the drain began spewing dirty water all over the kitchen floor.”
“The volcano continued spewing ash and molten rock into the atmosphere, forcing the immediate evacuation of all villages within a twenty-mile radius of the summit.”
Examples
simple
“The old factory was spewing black smoke into the air.”
contextual
“After the pipe burst, the drain began spewing dirty water all over the kitchen floor.”
complex
“The volcano continued spewing ash and molten rock into the atmosphere, forcing the immediate evacuation of all villages within a twenty-mile radius of the summit.”
Usage
Often used in the continuous form ('is spewing') to describe an ongoing, forceful process. Can be used transitively with an object or intransitively with a preposition like 'from' or 'out of'.
Scan code
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