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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • reˌgurgiˈtation, noun
  • reˈgurgitant, nounadjective
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Other Words From

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

Origin of regurgitate1

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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