Regurgitate definition
An example of regurgitate is to eat something and then have the food come back up the esophagus from the stomach.
An example of regurgitate is the smell of baking cookies causing the return of childhood memories.
Students that merely regurgitate facts during an exam.
The young gulls were fed by their mother's regurgitated food.
Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.
Origin of regurgitate
- Medieval Latin regurgitāre regurgitāt- to overflow Latin re- re- Late Latin gurgitāre to engulf, flood (from Latin gurges gurgit- whirlpool)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Late Latin regurgitatus, past participle of regurgitare, combined form of re- (“back") + gurgitare (“to engulf, flood"), from gurges (“whirlpool, gulf, sea, abyss").
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