regurgitate

[ ri-gur-ji-teyt ]

verb (used without object)

, re·gur·gi·tat·ed, re·gur·gi·tat·ing.

1. to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.

verb (used with object)

, re·gur·gi·tat·ed, re·gur·gi·tat·ing.

1. to cause to surge or rush back; vomit.
2. to give back or repeat, especially something not fully understood or assimilated:

   to regurgitate the teacher's lectures on the exam.

regurgitate

/ rɪˈɡɜːdʒɪˌteɪt /

verb

1. to vomit forth (partially digested food)
2. (of some birds and certain other animals) to bring back to the mouth (undigested or partly digested food with which to feed the young)
3. intr to be cast up or out, esp from the mouth
4. intr med (of blood) to flow backwards, in a direction opposite to the normal one, esp through a defective heart valve

Derived Forms

• reˌgurgiˈtation, noun
• reˈgurgitant, nounadjective

Other Words From

• re·gur·gi·tant [ri-, gur, -ji-t, uh, nt], noun
• unre·gurgi·tated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of regurgitate¹

1645–55; < Medieval Latin regurgitātus (past participle of regurgitāre ), equivalent to re- re- + gurgit-, stem of gurges whirlpool, flood, stream + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of regurgitate¹

C17: from Medieval Latin regurgitāre , from re- + gurgitāre to flood, from Latin gurges gulf, whirlpool

Example Sentences

Rather than regurgitate a list of work done for a number of other clients in their pitch, agencies should ask to problem-solve together with the client to figure out their compatibility, Morrell explained.

From Digiday

More enduring has been the neanderthal sitcom husband, forged in The Honeymooners, perfected by All in the Family and regurgitated in The King of Queens and Last Man Standing.

From Time

Some data generation techniques have been shown to closely reproduce images or text found in the training data, for example, while others are vulnerable to attacks that make them fully regurgitate that data.

From MIT Technology Review

So, whenever my girlfriend brought up Suzy, I had to check my impulse to regurgitate my dad’s response.

From Washington Post

Because beauty is highly subjective, the best a deep-learning beauty AI can do is to accurately regurgitate the preferences of the training data used to teach it.

From MIT Technology Review

Sometimes fluids regurgitate through the nose, and the voice may become nasal and indistinct.

From Project Gutenberg

A healthy, breast-fed baby may now and then regurgitate a bit, but it simply spills over because it is too full.

From Project Gutenberg

The valves of the absorbent vessels may suffer their fluids to regurgitate in some diseases.

From Project Gutenberg

As they approached this capital, Renaldo's grief seemed to regurgitate with redoubled violence.

From Project Gutenberg

We swallow and regurgitate over and over again our dissatisfaction, and are aptly said to chew the cud of bitterness.

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