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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REGURG'ITATE, v.t. [L. re and gurges.]
To throw or pour back as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
REGURG'ITATE, v.i. To be thrown or poured back.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: pour or rush back; "The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle"
2: 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"
3: repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" [syn: regurgitate, reproduce]
4: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-tated; -tating) Etymology: Medieval Latin regurgitatus, past participle of regurgitare, from Latin re- + Late Latin gurgitare to engulf, from Latin gurgit-, gurges whirlpool — more at voracious Date: 1653 intransitive verb to become thrown or poured back transitive verb to throw or pour back or out from or as if from a cavity <regurgitate food> <memorized facts to regurgitate on the exam>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 tr. bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth. 2 tr. cast or pour out again (required by the exam to regurgitate facts). 3 intr. be brought up again; gush back. Derivatives: regurgitation n. Etymology: med.L regurgitare (as RE-, L gurges gurgitis whirlpool)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Regurgitate Re*gur"gi*tate (r?*g?r"j?*t?t), v. t. [LL. regurgitare, regurgitatum; L. pref. re- re- + gurges, -itis, a gulf. Cf. Regorge.] To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Regurgitate Re*gur"gi*tate, v. i. To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth. --Quain.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(regurgitates, regurgitating, regurgitated) 1. If you say that someone is regurgitating ideas or facts, you mean that they are repeating them without understanding them properly. You can get sick to death of a friend regurgitating her partner's opinions. VERB: V n [disapproval] 2. If a person or animal regurgitates food, they bring it back up from their stomach before it has been digested. (FORMAL) Sometimes he regurgitates the food we give him because he cannot swallow. = bring up VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Flow back, be poured back.

Moby Thesaurus

barf, be seasick, be sick, bring up, chuck up, come again, copy, course, disgorge, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double, duplicate, ebb, echo, egest, feed the fish, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flush, gag, gush, heave, heave the gorge, imitate, issue, keck, make, parrot, plagiarize, pour, puke, quote, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reincarnate, reject, renew, repeat, reproduce, retch, revive, run, rush, say again, set, sick up, spew, stream, surge, surge back, throw up, trend, upchuck, vomit