MEANING
1. To belch or expel gas from the stomach through the mouth.
2. To eject gas, smoke, or other material as though belching.
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Words that belong together
- eructate gas
- eructation after a meal
On the page
The older medical account said the patient eructated repeatedly after the meal.
In the story, the creature eructated gas before its throat resumed the borrowed voice.
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Word forms
- Base
- eructate
- Past tense
- eructated
- Past participle
- eructated
- Present participle
- eructating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- eructate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are eructating
- Present perfect
- have/has eructated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been eructating
- Past
- eructated
- Past continuous
- was/were eructating
- Past perfect
- had eructated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been eructating
- Future
- will eructate
- Future continuous
- will be eructating
- Future perfect
- will have eructated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been eructating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: eructate; eructates; eructated; eructated; eructating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: eructates.
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