ungorge

Verb

ungorge (third-person singular simple present ungorges, present participle ungorging, simple past and past participle ungorged)

1. To relieve by vomiting.
   • Well, Phoebus, well, drink on, I say, drink on; But when thou dost ungorge thee, grant me this, Thou pour thy poisons on the head of John.1601, Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington
   • For gluttonizing his ore-charged chest, He neither can ungorge, nor yet digest , Till surfitted to death, he loaths it more Than ere he did embrace, or love before:1634, John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life
2. (figuratively) To purge; to empty out by removing something that should not be there.
   • They thought evil, 'God disposed it to good;' they, to ungorge themselves of that venomous malice which the prosperity of Joseph, conceived from his dreams, instilled into their hearts;1864, John KingJohn King, Lectures Upon Jonah: Delivered at York In the Year of Our Lord 1594, page 125
   • Or why not plunge thy blades about Some maggot politician throng, Swarming to parcel out The body of the land, and rout The maw-conventicle, and ungorge Wrong?1882 December, Sidney Lanier, “Individuality”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 25, number 2, page 223
3. To discharge or relinquish.
   • Lorries come, ungorge their loads.1976, Albert W. Kayper-Mensah, Akwaaba, page 9
   • It was not like the secret sadistic meaningless experiment operations performed in Nazi Germany under the cloak of Military Defense, or like the nuns who give birth clandestinely, fathered by the priests, who have fornicated with them behind the gray stone fortress of the convent; who bury those...2004, Red Jordan Arobateau, The Big Change, page 79