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spue

 (spyo͞o)
v. & n. Obsolete
Variant of spew.
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spue

(spjuː)
vb, spues, spuing or spued
an archaic spelling of spew
ˈspuer n
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spew

(spyu)

v.i.
1. to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
2. to gush or pour out.
v.t.
3. to eject from the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
4. to pour out or hurl forth violently.
n.
5. something that is spewed; vomit.
Sometimes, spue.
[before 900; Middle English; Old English spīwan, c. Old Frisian spīwa, Old Saxon, Old High German spīwan, Old Norse spȳja, Gothic speiwan]
spew′er, n.
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spue


Past participle: spued
Gerund: spuing

Imperative
spue
spue
Present
I spue
you spue
he/she/it spues
we spue
you spue
they spue
Preterite
I spued
you spued
he/she/it spued
we spued
you spued
they spued
Present Continuous
I am spuing
you are spuing
he/she/it is spuing
we are spuing
you are spuing
they are spuing
Present Perfect
I have spued
you have spued
he/she/it has spued
we have spued
you have spued
they have spued
Past Continuous
I was spuing
you were spuing
he/she/it was spuing
we were spuing
you were spuing
they were spuing
Past Perfect
I had spued
you had spued
he/she/it had spued
we had spued
you had spued
they had spued
Future
I will spue
you will spue
he/she/it will spue
we will spue
you will spue
they will spue
Future Perfect
I will have spued
you will have spued
he/she/it will have spued
we will have spued
you will have spued
they will have spued
Future Continuous
I will be spuing
you will be spuing
he/she/it will be spuing
we will be spuing
you will be spuing
they will be spuing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been spuing
you have been spuing
he/she/it has been spuing
we have been spuing
you have been spuing
they have been spuing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been spuing
you will have been spuing
he/she/it will have been spuing
we will have been spuing
you will have been spuing
they will have been spuing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been spuing
you had been spuing
he/she/it had been spuing
we had been spuing
you had been spuing
they had been spuing
Conditional
I would spue
you would spue
he/she/it would spue
we would spue
you would spue
they would spue
Past Conditional
I would have spued
you would have spued
he/she/it would have spued
we would have spued
you would have spued
they would have spued
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.spue - expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
cough out, cough up, expectorate, spit up, spit out - discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
2.spue - eject the contents of the stomach through the mouthspue - eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
egest, excrete, eliminate, pass - eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
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To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day."
So spue and cast her off, Bid her go find a husband with the dead.
We standardized marine mammal sighting data by calculating sightings per unit of effort (SPUE) for pooled seal species (ringed, bearded, harp, and hooded seals).
In a meeting on Wednesday with 2,000 garment factory workers in Chbar Mon town, Kampong Spue province, Prime Minister Hun Sen reminded all institutions to be ready for potential flooding.
Revelations tells us: "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." I and my fellow American advisors were, at the worst and best, lukewarm monsters.
Sae comes of Ignorance, I trow, It's this that crooks their ill-fa'rd mou' Wi' jokes sae course, they gar fouk spue For downright skonner; For Scotland wants na sons enew To do her honour.
We used the number of group sightings, rather than the number of individuals, as our measure of relative encounter rate, essentially creating encounter rate models of group sightings per unit (kilometer) of survey effort (SPUE) (Bordino et al., 1999; Stockin, 2008).
II "the spue of every drunkard, every ribald; nameless, yet not for
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Yet because or, nor in spue 01, nis localism, Shakespeare is the most universal of writers.