regurgitate
Plural: regurgitates
Verb
- pour or rush back
- "The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle"
- feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food
- repeat after memorization
- "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information"
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
- To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
- To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.
- To repeat (information) verbatim or by rote, typically after learning it without actual comprehension.
- To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
Noun
- Something regurgitated; regurgitated matter.
Examples
- Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.
- The young gulls were fed by their mother’s regurgitated food.
Origin / Etymology
From Late Latin regurgitatus, past participle of regurgitare, combined form of re- (“back”) + gurgitare (“to engulf, flood”), from gurges (“whirlpool, gulf, sea, abyss”).
Synonyms
barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, reproduce, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up, bait, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, bork, bow down before the porcelain god, cast up one's accounts, chuck up, chunder, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, get sick, heave, hurl, launch one's lunch, lose one's lunch, pray to the porcelain god, puke up, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, shoot the cat, sick up, talk to God on the big white telephone, talk to Ralph on the big white telephone, toss, toss one's cookies, whoops, woof one's cookies, worship the porcelain god, worship the porcelain goddess, yak
Scrabble Score: 13
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