Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb regurgitate

4 senses of regurgitate

Sense 1
regurgitate -- (pour or rush back; "The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle")
       => pour -- (flow in a spurt; "Water poured all over the floor")

Sense 2
regurgitate -- (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")
       => feed, give -- (give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat")

Sense 3
regurgitate, reproduce -- (repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information")
       => repeat, echo -- (to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders")

Sense 4
vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up -- (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")
       => excrete, egest, eliminate, pass -- (eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone")

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