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
Cooney testified this is because the boy would often regurgitate his food.
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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
Some of the chatbots also regurgitated Pravda's misinformation about corruption among Ukrainian military officials.
—PC Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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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
Some of the chatbots also regurgitated Pravda's misinformation about corruption among Ukrainian military officials.
—PC Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regurgitate
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His mother told reporters that Liam had a fever, was vomiting, and refused to eat.—
Caitlin Dickerson,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2026
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The dogs have scented from a wall someone touched, the dirt a person stumbled in and vomit on a car door.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Mar. 2026
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Happily, Syria’s new government has joined Lebanon’s call to expel the terror group.—
Michael M. Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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The more stars a galaxy forms, the stronger its matter-expelling effects become, leaving less and less material available for future star-formation episodes.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Mar. 2026
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Caught on camera, the violent altercation involved multiple suspects pummeling a man while allegedly hurling religious slurs.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Contrary to the opinions of those who hurl TACO insults at him, the president is aiming to patch up the holes the Supreme Court blew in his industry-wide and country-specific tariffs, which his administration implemented under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA).—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
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How do key components of matter — gas, dust, and heavy elements — flow into, get transported throughout, and ejected out of galaxies over time?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Mar. 2026
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Three people were ejected from the Nissan, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said at the scene.—
Joe Brandt,
CBS News,
10 Mar. 2026
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How differently might the same vista appear when seen from amid a mob that’s been disgorged from a tour bus, through the rectangle of a cell-phone camera, or, more simply, while on a quiet walk?—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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Sometimes passengers are disgorged onto melting pavement to await their next Tunnel Tesla in the desert city’s 100-degree heat.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Regurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regurgitate. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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