spewing
present 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
Examplesofspewing
spewing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
A withering burst of fire was directed into the wall directly behind them,spewingout thousands of steel fragments.
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They are already worn down by the endless regulations and quota cutsspewingout from this institution and bringing their industry to its knees.
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There is congestion in the streets, with clapped-out old buses, lorries and carsspewingfilth into the atmosphere which we then have to breathe.
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They have to continuespewingall their garbage into the atmosphere.
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I gather that the paper is stillspewingout, whatever happens to it.
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It has now been repaired and isspewingout more letters from unhappy constituents.
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It was thoroughly bad business practice by the company concerned, which seemed unable to stop its computer fromspewingforth these books.
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The stuff isspewingup out of that drift mine.
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Perhaps far more worrying is thespewingout of pollution from the chimney of its incinerator.
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Its statisticians and its bureaucrats and theirspewingout of words will go on and on, as these debates always point out.
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There is a giant computer up there absolutelyspewingout the chits which we are now receiving telling us how many stamps we have to our credit.
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As regards the space taken up by a lorry with a large trailer, far more cars would occupy that same space, allspewingout environmentally unfriendly gases.
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It is used as a hand-held spray or can be fired in canisters that heat upspewingout an aerosol cloud at a steady rate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The eruption began with a fissurespewinghot cinders to form the cone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At one point the object startsspewingsome kind of liquid and using its cables by itself like arms and sends out sparks.
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