What is another word for belching?

Pronunciation: [bˈɛlt͡ʃɪŋ] (IPA)

Belching is a common bodily function that occurs when gas from the stomach is released through the mouth. It can be considered rude or offensive and can cause discomfort for those around the person who is belching. However, there are many synonyms for this term that can be used to describe this action in a more polite or clinical manner. These include "burping," "eructation," "expelling gas," "venting," or "discharging gas." It is important to consider the context and audience when choosing which synonym to use. While "burping" may be more commonly used in casual conversations, "eructation" may be more appropriate in a medical or scientific setting.

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Usage examples for Belching

The whole of the Passchendaele Crest was like a series of volcanoes belching up pillars of earth and fire.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
That problem had been solved long before the mills had stopped belching smoke.
"The Circuit Riders"
R. C. FitzPatrick
Great clouds of smoke are belching through the opening, and are rolling heavily away upon the chill, scented air.
"In the Brooding Wild"
Ridgwell Cullum

Famous quotes with Belching

  • Government is humbug. There is no government. Behind the noisy, smoke-belching, larger-than-life illusion of government are ordinary human beings. It isn't accurate to say government 'is composed of' people; government is simply people. They may be good people but they are very bad wizards. Mortals have no magic. Individuals are the only human reality. All groups are fictions. That is, groups have no concrete existence; they are not beings or entities in themselves; they exist only in the abstract, in the mind. Governments, nations, societies, classes, tribes, cub scout packs, football teams, corporations, labor unions, proletariats, political parties, majorities, elite minorities, communities, civilizations and such are all fictions. Those words only describe, or try to describe, a relationship between persons.
    Roger MacBride
  • ... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.
    Amit Chaudhuri
  • You're going to tell me that poverty's nothing to be ashamed of. It's not true, though. If you can't hide it, then it is something to be ashamed of. There's nothing you can do, you're ashamed just the same, the way you're ashamed when you leave a spot on somebody's table. No matter if it's deserved or not, honorable or not, poverty stinks. Yes, stinks, stinks like a ground-floor room off an airshaft, or clothes that need changing. You smell it yourself, as though you were made of sewage. It can't be wiped away. It doesn't help to put on a new hat, any more than rinsing your mouth helps when you're belching your guts out. It's around you and on you and everyone who brushes up against you or looks at you knows it. I know the way women look down on you when you're down at heels. I know it's embarrassing for other people, but the hell with that, it's a lot more embarrassing when it's you. You can't get out of it, you can't get past it, the best thing to do is get plastered, and here" (he reached for his glass and drained it in a deliberately uncouth gulp) "here's the great social problem, here's why the 'lower classes' indulge in alcohol so much more - that problem that countesses and matrons in women's groups rack their brains over at tea. For those few minutes, those few hours, you forget you're an affront to other and to yourself. It's no great distinction to be seen in the company of someone dressed lie this, I know, but it's no fun for me either.
    Stefan Zweig
  • The launch vehicle, a fantailed Soyuz-FG, had been towed horizontally across the steppe on a special train, complete with smoke-belching locomotive, to the launch pad….The contrast with the NASA way of doing things was stark.... Doob’s youngest son was distracted by the sight of stray dogs copulating a hundred meters away from ground zero. The launch bunker, shockingly close to the pad, had a little vegetable patch where the technicians were growing cucumbers and tomatoes.
    Neal Stephenson

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