REGURGITATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regurgitate mean? 

• REGURGITATE (verb)
  The verb REGURGITATE has 4 senses:

1. pour or rush back

2. feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food

3. repeat after memorization

4. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

  Familiarity information: REGURGITATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGURGITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they regurgitate    ... he / she / it regurgitates   
Past simple: regurgitated   
Past participle: regurgitated   
-ing form: regurgitating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pour or rush back

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle

Hypernyms (to "regurgitate" is one way to...):

pour (flow in a spurt)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

regurgitation (backflow of blood through a defective heart valve)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest

Hypernyms (to "regurgitate" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Repeat after memorization

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

regurgitate; reproduce

Context example:

For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information

Hypernyms (to "regurgitate" is one way to...):

echo; repeat (to say again or imitate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

regurgitation (recall after rote memorization)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up

Context example:

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Hypernyms (to "regurgitate" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

regurgitation (the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

 Context examples 

Unlike the regurgitated seeds of the sambar deer, the seeds went through the elephants' digestive system and were covered by excrement.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Researchers found the seeds in the dung of some species while others like the Sambar deer regurgitated the large seeds.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)