gurgitation

American  

[gur-ji-tey-shuhn] / ˌgɜr dʒɪˈteɪ ʃən /

noun

1. a surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of water.

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gurgitation British  

/ ˌɡɜːdʒɪˈteɪʃən /

noun

1. surging or swirling motion, esp of water

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Etymology

Origin of gurgitation

1535–45; < Latin gurgitāt ( us ) (past participle of gurgitāre to engulf, derivative of gurgit-, stem of gurges whirlpool; -ate ¹ ) + -ion

Example Sentences

Embracing the bank, the two curved arms of a river came down in slow gurgitation of liquid ooze between screens of black-green vegetation.

From Project Gutenberg

The annals of gurgitation are dotted with strokes and blocked windpipes, of guts literally busted.

From Slate

We have also the fact of two great promontories in Capes Horn and Good Hope, where this great tidal wave must strike against, and they produce constant oscillations of the water to and fro, and produce gurgitation and regurgitation in all the gulfs and rivers that line the coasts of the Northern, or more properly, the Land Hemisphere.

From Project Gutenberg

Love Gustatory Myrtilla, I have seen you eat—   Have heard you drink, to be precise— Your soup, and, notwithstanding, sweet,   The gurgitation wasn't nice, I overlooked a tiny fault Like that with just a grain of salt.

From Project Gutenberg

Appeal—to—the—Bishop, Appeal—to-the—Bishop, seemed to be the speech of the jetting gurgitation under the glass lid.

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