belching

3 definitions • 3 examples

present participle of

to allow air from the stomach to come out noisily through the mouth:

He belched noisily.

to produce a large amount of a substance such as gas or smoke, especially when this is unpleasant or harmful, or to be produced like this:

The exhaust pipe belched out dense black smoke.

The haze is caused mostly by sulphur dioxide belching from coal-burning power plants.