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belchbelch /beltʃ/ verb  belchOrigin: Old English bealcian VERB TABLEbelch |
Present | I, you, we, they | belch | | he, she, it | belches | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | belched | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have belched | | he, she, it | has belched | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had belched | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will belch | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have belched |
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Present | I | am belching | | he, she, it | is belching | | you, we, they | are belching | Past | I, he, she, it | was belching | | you, we, they | were belching | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been belching | | he, she, it | has been belching | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been belching | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be belching | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been belching |
- smokestacks belching black smoke into the air
- Cranston was now quietly nodding, belching softly and smacking his lips.
- Offshore a small tug belched black smoke as she struggled to pull a string of barges.
- Pressed against me, the women stitched, blew snot out of their noses, spat and belched.
► belch (out) smoke (=send out large amounts of smoke)· The factories belch smoke. ADVERB► out· Water belched out as he drenched each tree, pouring the costly stuff into the deep trench which circled their trunks.· The fine sediments are fallout from a hydrothermal chimney that had been belching out smoke for years.· Each year it belches out the sum of 325,000 tonnes of sulphur.· The same effect occurs in cattle, though cattle belch out surplus methane.· The main stack belches out clouds of black smoke.· As they moved nearer, Nuadu felt the heat belch out. 1[intransitive] to let air from your stomach come out loudly through your mouth SYN burp2 (also belch out) [intransitive, transitive] to send out a large amount of smoke, flames etc, or to come out of something in large amounts: a line of chimneys belching out smoke Flames belched from the wreckage.—belch noun [countable] |