Regurgitate

Quick meaning: Regurgitate is a verb meaning (transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.

Meaning

(transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.
2. (intransitive) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
3. Something regurgitated; regurgitated matter.
4. (transitive, figurative, sometimes derogatory) To repeat (information) verbatim or by rote, typically after learning it without actual comprehension.

Example Sentences

Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.

The young gulls were fed by their mother’s regurgitated food.

The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read[…]

However, the growing prevalence of plastics in some areas means these can be difficult for albatrosses to distinguish, leading to accidental ingestion. These may then accumulate in the gut or be passed to offspring through regurgitates.

Word Forms

• regurgitates
• regurgitating
• regurgitated

Synonyms for regurgitate

Depending on context, synonyms include vomit, throw up, cast, disgorge, retch, puke.

Antonyms for regurgitate

Common opposites include defecate, ingest.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include regorge, vomit, disgorge, retch, puke, upchuck.

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