[ US /ˈspju/ ]
[ UK /spjˈuː/ ]
VERB
  1. eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
    The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate
    the volcano spews out molten rocks every day
  2. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
    After drinking too much, the students vomited
    He purged continuously
  3. expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
    The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer
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How To Use spew In A Sentence

  • This list of talking points that Rush told you to spew is old and cliched and so stupid it is an embarassment to have to address this moronity AGAIN. Think Progress » Indiana’s ‘sovereign citizens’ renounce their U.S. citizenship, claim to secede from the Union.
  • We would also be spewing far more carbon into the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
  • It constantly spews toxic chemicals into the air here, and the residents I work with suffer from headaches, nosebleeds and respiratory problems.
  • The Philippines’ most active volcano erupted again Monday, spewing ash and molten lava into the air, prompting volcanologists to warn of more violent eruptions in coming days.
  • The model spews out implications that are demonstrably falsifiable given an appropriate dataset; i.e., if one can lay one's hand on a dataset, then the model's predictions can be verified as either true or false.
  • Woodrow and Aiden Tyler Dawson are childhood friends whose aimlessness in day-to-day life is matched only by their passion for building flame-spewing machinery to "prepare for the apocalypse. Farihah Zaman: SXSW 2011 Dispatch Two: Coming of Age to a Theater Near You
  • Especially as the oil was spewing out from a reservoir 18,000 feet below the surface. The Sun
  • The source of the trouble lies to the north, where it spews its venom throughout the Great Kingdom, breeding dissension as rotten meat breeds maggots.
  • Greed is one of the primary factors that induces corporations to, say, spew chemicals into our air and water.
  • As she watched him stalking around the little house, red with rage, body taut as a watch spring with appressed aggression and his mouth constantly spewing Obscenities, she pictured him in his coffin. Two women
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