spewed
past simple and past participle ofspew
spew
verb[IorT,+ adv/prep]
uk/spjuː/us/spjuː/If something spewsliquidorgas, orliquidorgasspews from something, itflowsout inlargeamounts:
Thevolcanospewed agiantcloudofash,dust, andgasesintotheair.
Thedrainsspew(out)millions ofgallonsofrawsewageintotheriver.
Paper came spewing from thecomputerprinter.
Emitting and ejecting
- discharge
- displace
- displaced
- displacement
- eject
- ejection
- ejector
- emission
- emitter
- expel
- expulsion
- exude
- givesomethingoff
- loose
- puff
- re-emit
- send
- sendsomethingout
- shed
- shedding
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Movement of liquids
Phrasal verb
spew(something)up
Examplesofspewed
spewed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The sides of the tanker might have been split by the explosion and all the remaining oilspewedout into the sea.
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Approximately 2,500 additional regulations havespewedforth from the machinery of government in that time.
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We have certainly suffered too long from what goes on up above, or rather from what isspewedup above.
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It may well be that a political bias was not applied after the figures werespewedout from the computer.
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Humourless statisticians have programmed countless computers, which have dulyspewedout jargon and indecipherable algebraic equations.
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Those people are suffering from the noxious fumes and the pollution that is beingspewedout at present all over our town.
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That is justified, particularly when no alternative to the dole queue is offered to those who arespewedout of the industry.
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They plundered them, and made their fortunes—and thenspewedtheir muck almost on our back doors.
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I have almostspewedin my place this afternoon at the continuous repetition of the word "rationalisation".
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Theyspewedout polluting gases and turned buildings black.
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It appears that at least 50,000 tonnes of oil hasspewedinto the sea in a most environmentally sensitive area.
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He is in error if he thinks that that is a basis for the commitments that hespewedout in the last three or four minutes of his speech.
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I want to know why his obsession should bespewedout upon the laps of the rest of humanity quite so easily as is allowed at the present time.
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Torrents of filthy waterspewedout of crushed pipe work.
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Crude oilspewedforty feet above the derrick.
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