regurgitate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ɹɪˈɡɝ.d͡ʒəˌteɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something regurgitated; regurgitated matter.
    — However, the growing prevalence of plastics in some areas means these can be difficult for albatrosses to distinguish, leading to accidental ingestion. These may then accumulate in the gut or be passed to offspring through regurgitates.
动词 v.
  1. To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed. transitive
    — […] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
  2. To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does. transitive
    — The young gulls were fed by their mother’s regurgitated food.
  3. To repeat (information) verbatim or by rote, typically after learning it without actual comprehension. derogatory,figuratively,sometimes,transitive
    — The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read[…]
  4. To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. intransitive
    — Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.

词形变化

regurgitates present,singular,third-person regurgitating participle,present regurgitated participle,past regurgitated past regurgitates plural

词汇关系

近义词
bait be sick blow chunks boak boke boot bork bow down before the porcelain god cast up one's accounts chuck chuck up chunder drive the porcelain bus erupt gag get sick heave honk hurl launch one's lunch lose one's lunch pray to the porcelain god puke up purge ralph regurge regurgitate shoot the cat sick sick up talk to God on the big white telephone talk to Ralph on the big white telephone toss toss one's cookies woof one's cookies whoops worship the porcelain god worship the porcelain goddess yak
反义词
defecate ingest
衍生词
regurgitalith regurgitator regurgitatory unregurgitated
相关词
nauseated

词源

词源 1
From Late Latin regurgitātus, past participle of regurgitāre, combined form of re- (“back”) + gurgitāre (“to engulf, flood”), from gurges (“whirlpool, gulf, sea, abyss”).
词源 2
From Late Latin regurgitātus, past participle of regurgitāre, combined form of re- (“back”) + gurgitāre (“to engulf, flood”), from gurges (“whirlpool, gulf, sea, abyss”).
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