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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Disgorge  \Dis*gorge"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Disgorged};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Disgorging}.]  [F.  d['e]gorger,  earlier  desgorger 
  pref.  d['e]-,  des-  (L.  dis-)  +  gorge.  See  {Gorge}.] 
  1.  To  eject  or  discharge  by  the  throat  and  mouth;  to  vomit; 
  to  pour  forth  or  throw  out  with  violence,  as  if  from  the 
  mouth;  to  discharge  violently  or  in  great  quantities  from 
  a  confined  place 
 
  This  mountain  when  it  rageth  .  .  .  casteth  forth 
  huge  stones,  disgorgeth  brimstone.  --Hakluyt. 
 
  They  loudly  laughed  To  see  his  heaving  breast 
  disgorge  the  briny  draught.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  To  give  up  unwillingly  as  what  one  has  wrongfully  seized 
  and  appropriated;  to  make  restitution  of  to  surrender; 
  as  he  was  compelled  to  disgorge  his  ill-gotten  gains. 




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