regurgitate meaning and definition

REGURGITATE verb

Definition of regurgitate (verb)

1. pour or rush back
   • "The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle"
2. 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"
3. repeat after memorization
   • "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information"
   • synonyms: reproduce
4. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   • "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
   • synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up
   • antonym: keep down