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Disgorge vs Regorge - What's the difference?

disgorge | regorge |

As a verb disgorge

is to vomit or spew, to discharge.

disgorge

English

Verb

(disgorg)
  • To vomit or spew, to discharge.
  • * Hakluyt
  • This mountain when it rageth casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.
  • * Dryden
  • They loudly laughed / To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.
  • To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
  • (oenology) To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the .
  • Derived terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * regurgitate

    regorge

    English

    Verb

    (regorg)
  • To disgorge or vomit.
  • (Hayward)
  • To swallow again; to swallow back.
  • * Dryden
  • Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.
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