The reporters proceeded to eruct a stream of questions that all basically boiled down to "Wow, the President feels, huh?". From Wordnik.com. [Dyane Jean François: Breaking News: The President Has Feelings?] Reference
"Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 30] Reference
And (big surprise) the prizewinning locate to intend eruct wrap, as substantially as another supplies, is on eBay. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
So she should have had no objection when two Al Pieda members hurled a pie at her when she appeared in Arizona to eruct her demented hatespew. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Some, who have weak digestions, and thence have frequently been induced to eruct the quantity of air discharged from the fermenting aliment in their stomachs, have gradually obtained a power of voluntary eructation, and have been able thus to bring up hogsheads of air from their stomachs, whenever they pleased. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
This is sometimes acquired by habit, so that some people can eruct when they please, and as long as they please; and there is gas enough generated to supply them for this purpose; for by Dr. Hale's experiments, an apple, and many other kinds of aliment, give up above six hundred times their own bulk of an elastic gas in fermentation. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
But then comes the transitive sense, as in burp the baby, quite accurately defined as "to cause a baby to belch ..."; but nobody says "I have to cause the baby to belch," "I have to belch the baby," "I have to make the baby belch," or any other possible variant with belch, eruct, or any other word or phrase I can think of: everyone says Burp the baby. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4] Reference
"To eruct, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "means to belch, and that is one of the filthiest words in the Spanish language, though a very expressive one; and therefore nice folk have had recourse to the Latin, and instead of belch say eruct, and instead of belches say eructations; and if some do not understand these terms it matters little, for custom will bring them into use in the course of time, so that they will be readily understood; this is the way a language is enriched; custom and the public are all – powerful there.". From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
"To eruct, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "means to belch, and that is one of the filthiest words in the Spanish language, though a very expressive one; and therefore nice folk have had recourse to the Latin, and instead of belch say eruct, and instead of belches say eructations; and if some do not understand these terms it matters little, for custom will bring them into use in the course of time, so that they will be readily understood; this is the way a language is enriched; custom and the public are all-powerful there.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 30] Reference
(upper) end of the gastrointestinal tract, the language does have usable single words: to belch and a belch, as well as to eruct and an eructation. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
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