REGURGITATE - 11 definitions found
regurgitate v 1: pour or rush back; "The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle" 2: feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food; "many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest" 3: repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" [syn: regurgitate, reproduce] 4: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) regurgitate verb (-tated; -tating) Etymology: Medieval Latin regurgitatus, past participle of regurgitare, from Latin re- + Late Latin gurgitare to engulf, from Latin gurgit-, gurges whirlpool — more at voracious Date: 1653 intransitive verb to become thrown or poured back transitive verb to throw or pour back or out from or as if from a cavity <regurgitate food> <memorized facts to regurgitate on the exam> Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary regurgitate (regurgitates, regurgitating, regurgitated) 1. If you say that someone is regurgitating ideas or facts, you mean that they are repeating them without understanding them properly. You can get sick to death of a friend regurgitating her partner's opinions. VERB: V n [disapproval] 2. If a person or animal regurgitates food, they bring it back up from their stomach before it has been digested. (FORMAL) Sometimes he regurgitates the food we give him because he cannot swallow. = bring up VERB: V n English Explanatory Dictionary regurgitate rɪˈɡə:dʒɪteɪt v. 1 tr. bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth. 2 tr. cast or pour out again (required by the exam to regurgitate facts). 3 intr. be brought up again; gush back. øøregurgitation n. [med.L regurgitare (as RE-, L gurges gurgitis whirlpool)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Regurgitate \Re*gur"gi*tate\ (r?*g?r"j?*t?t), v. t. [LL. regurgitare, regurgitatum; L. pref. re- re- + gurges, -itis, a gulf. Cf. Regorge.] To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Regurgitate \Re*gur"gi*tate\, v. i. To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth. --Quain. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms regurgitate v. n. Flow back, be poured back. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) regurgitate rɪˈɡə:dʒɪteɪt v. vomit, disgorge, return one's dinner, spew up, (of birds of prey) cast; retch, gag; Colloq throw up, upchuck, Slang puke, US spiff one's biscuits, barf: The child regurgitated its dinner all over the inside of the car. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 62 Moby Thesaurus words for "regurgitate": barf, be seasick, be sick, bring up, chuck up, come again, copy, course, disgorge, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double, duplicate, ebb, echo, egest, feed the fish, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flush, gag, gush, heave, heave the gorge, imitate, issue, keck, make, parrot, plagiarize, pour, puke, quote, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reincarnate, reject, renew, repeat, reproduce, retch, revive, run, rush, say again, set, sick up, spew, stream, surge, surge back, throw up, trend, upchuck, vomit |
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