regurgitate
pronunciation
How to pronounce regurgitate in British English:
UK [rɪˈgɜ:dʒɪteɪt]
How to pronounce regurgitate in American English:
US [rɪˈgɜrdʒɪteɪt]
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- Verb:
- pour or rush back
- feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food
- repeat after memorization
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Word Origin
- regurgitate
- regurgitate: see gorge
- regurgitate (v.)
- 1640s (intransitive), 1753 (transitive), back formation from regurgitation, or else from Medieval Latin regurgitatus, past participle of regurgitare. Meaning "to vomit" first attested 1753. Related: Regurgitated; regurgitating.
Example
- 1. The majority of my exams required me to regurgitate , not to think .
- 2. Owls regurgitate partly digested food to feed their young .
- 3. When the female returns with a bellyful of food to regurgitate for the chick , the male heads off for his own feeding session at sea .
- 4. I don 't think he realized to this day how scared , so scared that we would regurgitate .
- 5. Admission to a top university often requires students to toil away much of their childhood at evening cram schools , where they learn how to regurgitate reams of facts and figures .