Belching or burping; expressing gas from the stomach.
Present participle of the verb eruct, dropping the final -e before adding -ing following English phonetic rules.
The shorter 'eruct' form is actually older in English—people gradually shortened 'eructate' the same way we now say 'burp' instead of 'burping up gas!'
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