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1 definition found 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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