regurgitate
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From Mediaeval Latin regurgitatus, pp. of regurgitare < Late Latin re- (“‘back’”) + gurgitare (“‘to engulf, flood’”) < gurges (“‘a raging abyss, whirlpool’”).
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to regurgitate (third-person singular simple present regurgitates, present participle regurgitating, simple past and past participle regurgitated)
- (transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
- (transitive) What a bird or other animal does, to cough up from its gut to feed its young.
- The young gulls were fed by their mother's regurgitated food.
- (transitive, by extension) To repeat verbatim.
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to throw up
to repeat verbatim
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[edit] External links
- regurgitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- regurgitate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
