as in to vomit
to discharge (something) previously consumed
The mother dog regurgitates her food to feed her puppies.
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Recent Examples of regurgitate
The Prime helpfully regurgitates Marjorie’s own life stories, though her daughter Tess (Cynthia Nixon) and son-in-law Jon (Danny Burstein) don’t agree about how truthful this pseudo-Walter should be.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
Cooney testified this is because the boy would often regurgitate his food.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
A little more than three months later, a lot of the same rhetoric is being regurgitated about Diggs’ antics behind-the-scenes and what the team wants from him moving forward.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Dec. 2025
The hypothesis posits that the sick bird swallowed an excessive amount of stones and then attempted to regurgitate them in a single large mass.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
Cooney testified this is because the boy would often regurgitate his food.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
A little more than three months later, a lot of the same rhetoric is being regurgitated about Diggs’ antics behind-the-scenes and what the team wants from him moving forward.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Dec. 2025
The hypothesis posits that the sick bird swallowed an excessive amount of stones and then attempted to regurgitate them in a single large mass.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regurgitate
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Well, not stopping at one drink, or 10, and then vomiting on Katy's foot was the answer.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2026
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Lopman’s son Ruben was suffering from severe dehydration from rotavirus, one of the most common causes of diarrhea and vomiting in babies and children.—
Lauren Dunn,
NBC news,
15 Apr. 2026
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Expulsion votes possible for four lawmakers The House could move as early as this week to expel several members of Congress.—
John Parkinson,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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The bloc doesn’t have a mechanism to expel a wayward member, but Western diplomats told me that brazen electoral theft would inaugurate a perilous new era.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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The New York Islanders are facing questions about a jumbotron promotion urging hockey fans to donate to a former New York City police sergeant who was recently convicted of manslaughter for hurling a cooler of ice at a man fleeing arrest.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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On Friday, a man hurled a Molotov cocktail at the gate in front of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
16 Apr. 2026
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The incident is similar to Starlink satellite 35956, which also experienced an anomaly in December involving the venting of a propulsion tank and some ejected debris.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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The game was marred late when Pacers forward Jalen Slawson was ejected following a blindside collision with Pistons forward Isaiah Stewart, which resulted in a shouting match between the coaching staffs.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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And yet your sufferings would come to an end in a mere fifty-seven hours, or whenever the train disgorged you, while the sufferings of Gunnar’s daughter would probably end only with her death.—
Cassandra Neyenesch,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Tanker trucks were hijacked and found later, empty, their liquid-gold cargo evidently disgorged into some gas station’s underground tanks.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Regurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regurgitate. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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