regurgitate
verb
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Something regurgitated has typically been taken in, at least partially digested, and then spit back out—either literally or figuratively. The word often appears in biological contexts (e.g., in describing how some birds feed their chicks by regurgitating incompletely digested food) or in references to ideas or information that has been acquired and restated. A student, for example, might be expected to learn information from a textbook or a teacher and then regurgitate it for a test. Regurgitate, which entered the English vocabulary in the latter half of the 16th century, is of Latin origin and traces back to the Latin word for "whirlpool," which is gurges.
Examples of regurgitate in a Sentence
Quispe López, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
Frequent stomach upset in which the stomach acid is regurgitated and passes into your mouth and over your teeth can gradually wear away your tooth enamel.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 31 July 2024
This might look like sending a passive-aggressive email or doing something small to block someone’s goals, like regurgitating a peer’s idea as your own.
—Jade Thomas, CNBC, 29 July 2024
But in other cases, the new parents did enter the nests and began treating the offspring as their own, even regurgitating seeds to them and defending them against other aggressive birds.
—Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 6 May 2024
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“Regurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regurgitate. Accessed 12 Sep. 2024.
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