Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

[…] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.

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[…]

Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.

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

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Use regurgitate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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