regorge
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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(tr) to vomit up; disgorge
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(intr) (esp of water) to flow or run back
Etymology
Origin of regorge
First recorded in 1595–1605, regorge is from the French word regorger, Middle French. See re-, gorge 1
Example Sentences
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They crop grief after grief, chewing the cud of grievance; for when they are full of it they disgorge and regorge the abhorred sum, and have stuff for their spleens for many a year.'
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
As to finding p. 246them out to make them regorge that was out of the question.
From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
But no matter, let them be rich; let them be blood-suckers; so much, God willing, shall they regorge into the treasury of the empire.
From The Caesars by De Quincey, Thomas
That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil.
From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Bays and passes were swollen to abysses; rivers regorged; the sea-marshes were changed to raging wastes of water.
From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio
Representation is continually "pressing on the limits" of real wealth, and is from time to time regorged.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby
When you have regorged what you have taken in, you are the leanest things in nature.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir
The male of the hornbills, Bucerotinae, feeds his mate, which is imprisoned, or walled-up in a hollow tree, during the whole time of incubation, by regorging his food.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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