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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

eructar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: eructar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Burp/bɜːrp/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #9500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El bebé necesita eructar después de tomar su biberón."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To expel air from the stomach through the mouth with a sound; to belch.

    "He politely covered his mouth when he happened to burp after dinner."
As noun
  1. 1

    The act or sound of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth.

    "The baby let out a tiny burp after finishing her milk."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English, the word is of imitative origin (onomatopoeia), mimicking the sound of air escaping from the stomach through the mouth. It emerged in its modern phonetic form in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a more informal variant of the older term eruct.

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