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/rˌɪgˈərdʒətˌeɪt/ Listen

Regurgitate

verb

Pour or rush back.

Feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food.

Repeat after memorization. Synonym: reproduce.

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth. Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up. "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" Antonym: keep down.

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"Regurgitate" Quotes from Famous Books

... the term used by naturalists to designate those mammiferous quadrupeds which chew the cud; or, in other words, which swallow their food, in the first instance, with a very slight mastication, and afterwards regurgitate it, in order that it may undergo a second and more complete mastication: this second operation is called ruminating, or chewing the cud. The order of animals which possess this peculiarity, is divided into nine groups ...

— Delineations of the Ox Tribe • George Vasey

... that in the embryo the blood must constantly pass by this foramen from the vena cava into the pulmonary vein, and from thence into the left auricle of the heart; and having once entered there, it can never regurgitate. ...

— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various