regurgitate Definition
re·gur·gi·tate (ri gʉr′jə tāt′)
intransitive verb -·tat′ed, -·tat′·ing
to rush, surge, or flow back
Etymology: < ML regurgitatus, pp. of regurgitare, to regurgitate < re-, back + LL gurgitare, to flood < gurges (gen. gurgitis): see gorge
transitive verb
to cause to surge or flow back; specif., to bring (partly digested food) from the stomach back to the mouth
regurgitate Related Forms
regurgitate Synonyms
regurgitate
v.
regurgitate Usage Examples
Object
- food: Herring gull chicks peck at a red spot on their parents's bill to induce their parents to regurgitate food.
- fact: The disadvantage of these systems is that they tend simply to regurgitate facts in response to mouse clicks.
- material: Don't simply regurgitate material from a tutorial essay which was not quite on the same topic.
- information: Many academics are accused of merely regurgitating the same old information in a new language.
- juice: The food requirements of adult flies are mainly for carbohydrates which are taken in liquid form having been dissolved by regurgitated digestive juices.
- blood: Regurgitated blood can stain the feathers around the beak and neck.
Subject
owl: Unfortunately, its only the remains of a mouse, as regurgitated by an owl.
Preposition: as
pellet: Diet Owls need complete animal food, including the bone and fur which are regurgitated as pellets.
Adjective complement
most: Also, going by other people's comments, it's a bit pointless quoting links and then regurgitating most of the text anyway.
Modifying Another Word
- duly: Philosophy is not about spoon-feeding received facts which must be duly regurgitated in essays and exams.
- merely: Many academics are accused of merely regurgitating the same old information in a new language.
- simply: Don't simply regurgitate material from a tutorial essay which was not quite on the same topic.
- then: She then regurgitates all of the nectar into storage cells.
- just: The emphasis is on learning a task rather than just regurgitating an answer.
- not: Do not regurgitate all the material that you have revised or that featured in a lecture course.
Used with why or when
what: Home to find Button has regurgitated what looks like an ex bird on the sitting room carpet.
Preposition: in
- essay: Philosophy is not about spoon-feeding received facts which must be duly regurgitated in essays and exams.
- form: They are swallowed whole and later any indigestible parts are regurgitated in the form of pellets.
Preposition: by
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