Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to belch
Participle: belched
Gerund: belching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | belch |
| you | belch |
| he;she;it | belches |
| we | belch |
| you | belch |
| they | belch |
Perfect
| I | have belched |
| you | have belched |
| he;she;it | has belched |
| we | have belched |
| you | have belched |
| they | have belched |
Past
| I | belched |
| you | belched |
| he;she;it | belched |
| we | belched |
| you | belched |
| they | belched |
Pluperfect
| I | had belched |
| you | had belched |
| he;she;it | had belched |
| we | had belched |
| you | had belched |
| they | had belched |
Future
| I | will belch |
| you | will belch |
| he;she;it | will belch |
| we | will belch |
| you | will belch |
| they | will belch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have belched |
| you | will have belched |
| he;she;it | will have belched |
| we | will have belched |
| you | will have belched |
| they | will have belched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | belch |
| you | belch |
| he;she;it | belch |
| we | belch |
| you | belch |
| they | belch |
Perfect
| I | have belched |
| you | have belched |
| he;she;it | have belched |
| we | have belched |
| you | have belched |
| they | have belched |
Imperfect
| I | belched |
| you | belched |
| he;she;it | belched |
| we | belched |
| you | belched |
| they | belched |
Pluperfect
| I | had belched |
| you | had belched |
| he;she;it | had belched |
| we | had belched |
| you | had belched |
| they | had belched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would belch |
| you | would belch |
| he;she;it | would belch |
| we | would belch |
| you | would belch |
| they | would belch |
Perfect
| I | would have belched |
| you | would have belched |
| he;she;it | would have belched |
| we | would have belched |
| you | would have belched |
| they | would have belched |
Imperative
| you | belch |
| we | Let's belch |
| you | belch |
Verbs conjugated like 'belch'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'belch'
beach,
bench,
felch,
welch,
bach,
batch,
beath,
beck,
belace,
belam,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
bealcan "bring up wind from the stomach," also "swell, heave," of echoic origin (cf. Du.
balken "to bray, shout"). Extended to volcanoes, cannons, etc. 1580. It is recorded in 1706 as a slang noun meaning "poor beer."
2. From Middle English belchen, from Old English bielċan, from Proto-Germanic *balkijaną, *belkaną, probably ultimately of imitative origin.
3. Related to Dutch balken (“to bray”), Middle Low German belken (“to shout”), Low German bölken (“to shout, bark”), Old English bealċettan (“to utter, send forth”). See also English bolk, boak. See: Dutch '
balken', Low Saxon 'bölken', English '
bolk'.
Verbs referencing "belch"
Dutch
balken, German, old spelling
bölken.
Sample Sentences
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'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
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They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
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To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
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They belch us. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:]
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1746, attributed to Jonathan Swift, "A Love Poem form a Physician to his Mistress," http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14353/pg14353-images.html
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When I an amorous kiss design'd,
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I belch'd a hurricane of wind.
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She eats too fast, belches behind a cupped hand, smiles. [1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, 19982, Chapter 2, p. 41:]
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Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.
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Within the gates of hell sat Sin and Death,
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In counterview within the gates, that now
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Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame
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Far into Chaos […]. [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 230-33:]
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Vulcan this plague begot; and, like his sire,
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Black clouds he belch'd, and flakes of livid fire. [1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
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[…]beneath him sound like waves on a desert shore
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The voice of slaves beneath the sun, and children bought with money,
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That shiver in religious caves beneath the burning fires
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Of lust, that belch incessant from the summits of the earth. [1793, William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, lines 30–33:]
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I sing the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death at will.
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Ah, but the wailing mothers, the lifeless forms and still! [1914, Harry Kemp, I sing the Battle:]
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I grasped the cold slimy rung. My feet slithered and scrunched on stranded things. Next rung...the next and next...endless horrible rungs, hissing and smells belching from under the wharf. [1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:]
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A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky. [1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141:]