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UK
/ɹɪɡˈɜːdʒɪtˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˌɹɪˈɡɝdʒəˌteɪt/ ]
[ US /ˌɹɪˈɡɝdʒəˌteɪt/ ]
VERB
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repeat after memorization
For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information -
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
After drinking too much, the students vomited
He purged continuously -
pour or rush back
The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle -
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
How To Use regurgitate In A Sentence
- Some birds and animals regurgitate food to feed their young.
- He's living off regurgitated food from his mother at the moment.
- I hardly listen to radio in the morning, except to quickly digest the news, much of which is regurgitated from the previous night anyway.
- Sometimes he regurgitates the food we give him because he cannot swallow.
- Owls regurgitate partly digested food to feed their young.
- Although, like most other mediums, she was regularly searched before seances, many believe she swallowed and later regurgitated the material.
- One has the impression that Greenfield was informed she would be asked about this period in Freud's early psychoanalytic career, so she mugged it up from a psychoanalytic source and regurgitated it as best she could.
- It tried to gauge how well pupils were able to apply their knowledge in real life rather than simply regurgitate facts and figures.
- The bureau confirmed it to Anderson even though J. Edgar Hoover had called him "a flea-ridden dog" who was "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures. A new book reveals depths of columnist Jack Anderson's anti-Nixon tactics
- This story's been told as many times as the regurgitated hot dog, but hey, this is the weekend for nostalgia overdosage. The Hogettes in Canton
