See ungorge on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1601, Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington:",
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"ref": "1882 December, Sidney Lanier, “Individuality”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 25, number 2, page 223:",
"text": "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?",
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"ref": "1976, Albert W. Kayper-Mensah, Akwaaba, page 9:",
"text": "Lorries come, ungorge their loads.",
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"ref": "2004, Red Jordan Arobateau, The Big Change, page 79:",
"text": "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 infants that turn to skeletons beneath ivy covered walls of the nunnery, preserved till the centuries ungorge these small bodies, remains of dozens and dozens of live-birth of babies beneath brick and stone, preserved relics.",
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