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In the book I am reading, the author wrote about the bus disgorging it's passengers. Would you use it that way? I would only use it for liquids, as in the dictionary.com's "disgorging the wine from the sediment."

Of course, I probably wouldn't use the word much at all. How about you?
 
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I might. Seems straightforwardly metaphorical to me.


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I wouldn't raise an eyebrow at that use.


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Nor would I; it seems a proper usage.
 
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Interesting. Even when I looked it up, it seemed that it was mostly used with liquids. And I have only seen gorge used, never disgorge.
 
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