regorge

See also: regorgé

English

Etymology

From French regorger. Compare regurgitate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

regorge (third-person singular simple present regorges, present participle regorging, simple past and past participle regorged)

1. To disgorge or vomit.
   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:

     it was scoffingly said that he had eaten the kings goose and did then regorge the feathers

2. To swallow again; to swallow back.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.

Anagrams

• egregor

French

Verb

regorge

1. inflection of regorger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative