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
Their diplomas and GPAs speak to their talent for rote memorization, but simply regurgitating facts and figures has little to no value for employers.
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Ulrik Juul Christensen, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Holland and Marek Epstein’s screenplay breathlessly regurgitates an aggregated fact sheet of Kafka’s life.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
The director can lose us a bit with too many details, which drag on during the doc’s middle section, although horror fans and movie buffs will certainly have plenty to chew on (and then regurgitate with green vomit).
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
One refined its wing muscles and song circuits to produce the sonic courtship ritual, the other boosting the visual and motor circuits for regurgitating and presenting food to a female.
—New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
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Ulrik Juul Christensen, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Holland and Marek Epstein’s screenplay breathlessly regurgitates an aggregated fact sheet of Kafka’s life.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
The director can lose us a bit with too many details, which drag on during the doc’s middle section, although horror fans and movie buffs will certainly have plenty to chew on (and then regurgitate with green vomit).
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
One refined its wing muscles and song circuits to produce the sonic courtship ritual, the other boosting the visual and motor circuits for regurgitating and presenting food to a female.
—New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regurgitate
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These maggots vomit and excrete illuminated threads of bile to entice tiny insects to their deaths.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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That horrible mistake reveals itself several scenes later when Katie projectile vomits into her windshield.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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The name Jesus in Hebrew is Joshua—the name of Moses’s successor, who conquered the land of Israel in ancient times and set up an independent Jewish state, expelling and defeating his enemies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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And in the worst case scenarios, their child might be expelled from their child care.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Jupiter’s gravitational pull also hurls enormous rocks around within the asteroid belt.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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Mullen was 29-6 before Marco Wilson hurled a cleat and 5-9 after it.—
Matt Baker,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Reeve was ejected late in the fourth quarter of that Game 3 contest.—
Jill Martin,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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These plumes are known to eject their material thousands of miles from the moon’s surface.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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Whether aged for a decade on lees or freshly disgorged to capture youthful verve, these sparklers are redefining American méthode traditionnelle.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Then the pick-up trucks come and disgorge their expensive property around the bullring.—
Camilla Wright,
semafor.com,
11 July 2025
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“Regurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regurgitate. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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