Synonyms for belly up
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : bel-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɛl i |
Top 10 synonyms for belly up Other synonyms for the word belly up
- all washed up
- belly up
- belly-up
- bend
- burned out
- conk out
- cooked
- crack up
- dead
- deflate
- destroyed
- done for
- down and out
- down for the count
- down the drain
- down the tubes
- droop
- exhaust
- finished
- flag
- flake out
- floored
- fold
- give
- give in
- give out
- go
- go to pieces
- had it
- keel over
- languish
- nonfunctioning
- on the skids
- out of business
- out of circulation
- shatter
- subside
- succumb
- sunk
- tire
- topple
- totaled
- washed up
- weaken
- weary
- wilt
- wiped out
- yield
Définition of belly up
Origin :- "to swell out," 1620s, from belly (n.). Related: Bellied; bellying. Old English belgan meant "to be or become angry" (a figurative sense). A comparable Greek verb-from-noun, gastrizein, meant "to hit (someone) in the belly."
- As in kaput : adj ruined, wrecked
- As in collapse : verb fall apart, break down
- Still, one fine day they'll slit his belly up, by God they will!
- Extract from : « Pelle the Conqueror, Complete » by Martin Anderson Nexo
- But at length she floated to the surface, unconscious, her belly up, as if dead.
- Extract from : « American Hero-Myths » by Daniel G. Brinton
- A slip would have sent them, belly up, down the toboggan-slide, with a drop into an unknown depth at the end.
- Extract from : « Pony Tracks » by Frederic Remington
- A large fish floated on the water, belly up; fish washed ashore are used by the people as medicine.
- Extract from : « Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Sven Hedin
- The gull flapped his wings violently once or twice, then turned over and floated away, belly up, quite dead.
- Extract from : « The Land's End » by W. H. Hudson
- The piano in Bezuquet's shop mouldered away under a green fungus, and the Spanish flies dried upon it, belly up.
- Extract from : « Tartarin of Tarascon » by Alphonse Daudet
- Fill the other part with a plum-pudding; sew the belly up, and bake it.
- Extract from : « The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; » by Charlotte Campbell Bury
- This time Bill did not aim so much below and when he fired the fish came to the surface, belly up.
- Extract from : « Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol » by Henry Harley Arnold
- He started crawling on his belly up out of the draw to the crest of the hog's back.
- Extract from : « The Pride of Palomar » by Peter B. Kyne
- "Your ponies floated, belly up, down the river moons ago," said Matthews.
- Extract from : « The Plow-Woman » by Eleanor Gates
Antonyms for belly up
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