| 单词 | regurgitate |
| 释义 | regurgitate (once / 27360 pages) v To regurgitate is to bring already swallowed food back up through one's throat and out the mouth. Not so nice in humans, but much more understandable (if still gross) in birds — who feed their baby chicks by regurgitating. Finished cramming for your exam? Ready to do a data dump? Then you're about to regurgitate all you've learned — repeat information verbatim without any real understanding or analysis of it. Don't worry, everyone does it, from high school and college students, to grown-ups in corporate boardrooms. WORD FAMILYregurgitate: regurgitated, regurgitates, regurgitating, regurgitation+/regurgitation: regurgitations USAGE EXAMPLESThey store liquid food in “social stomachs,” or crops, from which they can regurgitate it later. Science Magazine(Nov 29, 2016) The one where he read Margot Robbie’s mind, freaked out Stephen Curry by regurgitating frogs and caught a bullet in his mouth? Golf Digest(Nov 22, 2016) “He’s not an ideologue who’s regurgitating talking points. He’s incredibly thoughtful.” New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) 1v pour or rush back The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle Hyper pour flow in a spurt 2v eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night Syn|Ant|Hyper barf, be sick, chuck, disgorge, throw up, vomit up keep down manage not to throw up egest, eliminate, excrete, pass eliminate from the body 3v feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest Hyper feed, give give food to 4v repeat after memorization For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information Syn|Hyper reproduce echo, repeat to say again or imitate |
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