Spew (verb)
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To discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit. / To speak words as though vomiting them violently.
First recorded before 900; Middle English spewen “to vomit, cast forth foul language,” Old English spīwan “to vomit”; cognate with German speien, Old Norse spȳja, Gothic speiwan, Latin spuere
Example sentences
“I could not listen to him spew his hateful rhetoric for a moment longer.”
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