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Verb: regurgitate ri'gur-ji,teyt or ree'gur-ji,teyt- Pour or rush back
"The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle" - 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" - Repeat after memorization
"For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information"; - reproduce - Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"; - vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, barf, spew, spue [archaic], chuck, upchuck [N. Amer], honk, throw up, keck, hurl, chuck up [Brit], chunder [Brit]
Derived forms: regurgitates, regurgitating, regurgitated Type of: echo, egest, eliminate, excrete, feed, give, pass, pour, repeat Encyclopedia: Regurgitate |