regurgitate
verb /rɪˈɡɜːdʒɪteɪt/
/rɪˈɡɜːrdʒɪteɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they regurgitate | /rɪˈɡɜːdʒɪteɪt/ /rɪˈɡɜːrdʒɪteɪt/ |
| he / she / it regurgitates | /rɪˈɡɜːdʒɪteɪts/ /rɪˈɡɜːrdʒɪteɪts/ |
| past simple regurgitated | /rɪˈɡɜːdʒɪteɪtɪd/ /rɪˈɡɜːrdʒɪteɪtɪd/ |
| past participle regurgitated | /rɪˈɡɜːdʒɪteɪtɪd/ /rɪˈɡɜːrdʒɪteɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form regurgitating | /rɪˈɡɜːdʒɪteɪtɪŋ/ /rɪˈɡɜːrdʒɪteɪtɪŋ/ |
- regurgitate something (formal) to bring food that has been swallowed back up into the mouth again
- The bird regurgitates half-digested fish to feed its young.
- regurgitate something (disapproving) to repeat something you have heard or read without really thinking about it or understanding it
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin regurgitat-, from the verb regurgitare, from Latin re- ‘again, back’ + gurges, gurgit- ‘whirlpool’.