SPEW Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

ˈspyü

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as in to pour

to flow out in great quantities or with force water spewing violently from the broken pipe

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as in to spit

to violently throw out or off (something from within) a volcano spewing out lava

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as in to vomit

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth "I'm going to spew right here in the car if you don't pull over!" she wailed to her friend

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This is because the water spewing out of Old Faithful is both boiling hot and contains minerals that can dissolve human skin on contact. —

Drew Magary, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2024 That’s turning school pick-up lines into a hellscape of idling cars and SUVs spewing their own emissions onto the sidewalk, where the kids wait for their parents. —

Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024

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That’s what this moron advocated in a shameful commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas -- a spew of backward misogyny that has since been rightly vilified. —

Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 19 May 2024 Because these are not short spews of text Fishburne has penned for us; they are run on sentences and legato soliloquies. —

Brittani Samuel, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for spew

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