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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 disgorging
 噴出; 被迫交出髒物

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·gorge v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgorged p. pr. & vb. n. Disgorging.]
 1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.
    This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.   --Hakluyt.
 They loudly laughed
 To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.   --Dryden.
 2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.