单词 | regorge |
释义 | regorgev. 1. a. transitive and intransitive. To cast up or disgorge again; to throw or cast back. Formerly also with †of. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (transitive)] > regurgitate regurgitate1578 regorge1583 to spit up1885 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > disgorge as if from the stomach or a gulf > again regurgitate1578 regorge1583 1583 R. Harrison Treat. 122 Psalm sig. C3 He is a cruell maister, whiche will vrge his bonde slaue to eate vppe three or foure meases of potage, when his stomache will not beare one, without regorginge. 1605 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Exam. Menacing & Disleal Petition 84 It is not much materiall, what is regorged out of such a gulfe of impieties. 1651 R. Watson Ακολουθος: Second Faire Warning vii. 76 Too indulgent paternal, goodnesse having turn'd into poison, you regorg'd in his face by a foreigne invasion, and a base mercenarie rebellion. 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode i. i. 3 When you have regorg'd what you have taken in, you are the leanest things in Nature. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 27 Those Curses your populous and celebrated Cities regorge of. 1779 tr. J. W. von Goethe Sorrows of Werter I. xxxii. 146 The universe to me is as a fearful monster, which devours and regorges its food. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 386 That water..must soon have reached the bottom, and there have been regorged back upon the soil. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. ii. i. 162 Ever fearful that they might be called upon to re-gorge their..spoil. 1850 R. Browning Easter Day xv Then, each cleft The fire had been sucked back into, Regorged. 1961 Times 6 Mar. 15 The habit of gobbling eight books a week, noting, storing and regorging as all my own work remains. 1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 Nov. 77 Dine upon this column immediately and never regorge its contents. b. intransitive. Of a place: to be flooded with; to fill again to capacity with. Now rare. ΚΠ 1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. v. iii. 329 The Narses ouerthrew..so many of the Franci in a set battell, that the territories about Capua regorged [Fr. regorgoyent] with humane blood. 1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina i. 98 They whose coffers regorge with treasures, fear most the losse of their treasure. 1739 J. Thomson Edward & Eleonora v. iii. 58 Men, Women, Children, murder'd, basely murder'd! The holy Temple, which you came to rescue, Regorges with the barbarous Profanation. 1772 tr. Ess. Spirit Legislation iii. 439 At present it appears for be far removed from regorging with inhabitants. 1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 12 Aug. 1/3 The pharisees of every description, with whom the old world regorges. 1913 E. Wharton Let. 19 Apr. (1988) 296 The restaurant, which regorged with commercial gents. 1994 T. Stoianovich Balkan Worlds iv. 166 In 1613, according to Ragusan reports, the imperial route between Niš and Istanbul regorged with bandits and cadavers. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure > flow back regurgitate1578 reflow1609 refloat1632 regorge1654 re-streama1711 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 359 He..resolved to block up the Arches of the Bridg..so as the water might regorge [It. rigurgitasse] back again into the fields. 1777 J. Anderson Observ. Nat. Industry x. 202 Some rock or other impediment running across the valley, which stopping the current of the river, makes it regorge backwards, forming a lake that fills the whole valley. 1843 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (ed. 2) VIII. lxvii. 395 The least east wind, or any considerable flood in the rivers, makes their waters regorge and overspread a vast extent of level ground. 1889 L. Hearn Chita i. vi. 52 Bays and passes were swollen to abysses; rivers regorged; the sea-marshes were changed to raging wastes of water. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > take in > again regorge1671 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 96 Drunk with Idolatry, drunk with Wine, And fat regorg'd of Bulls and Goats. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 130 But as Extremes are short, of Ill and Good, And Tides at highest Mark regorge the Flood. 1825 W. Tennant John Baliol ii. iv. 62 For should the disaffection but peep out, King John has friends to make rebellious lips Regorge their utter'd treason. 1894 J. M. Whistler in Speaker 10 Nov. 516 I question if it be not without precedent that a writer ever before so abjectly regorged his spleen as to submit his Bowdlerized work to his victim for his approval. DerivativesΚΠ 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. viii. 193 The regorging Fluids..struggling and labouring under the Animal Functions. 1838 Farmers' Reg. 1 Apr. 27/1 In consequence of the regorging action of the sea, all streams spread greatly at their mouths. reˈgorgement n. †(a) that which has been regorged (obsolete); (b) the action or an instance of regorging (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > reflux or regurgitation > substance regorgement1641 heartwater1742 posset1886 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie i. x. 58 But what he hath done in that kind, he hath done many times by gathering up the regorgements of others. 1829 R. Torrens Ess. External Corn Trade iii. iii. 325 The country, after the present crisis has passed away, will continue to be exposed to periodical returns of regorgement and revulsion. 1957 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 25 Oct. 7 a /1 Rome had its decadence, when nobles gorged themselves on food and drink and used stomach pumps to permit regorgement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1583 |
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