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Regurgitate vs Regorge - What's the difference?

regurgitate | regorge |

As verbs the difference between regurgitate and regorge

is that regurgitate is to throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed while regorge is to disgorge or vomit.

regurgitate

English

Verb

(regurgitat)
  • To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
  • * '>citation
  • To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as a bird or animal does.
  • The young gulls were fed by their mother's regurgitated food.
  • (by extension) To repeat verbatim.
  • To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
  • Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.

    Synonyms

    * (to throw up or vomit) vomit, throw up, cast, disgorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, upchuck * See also

    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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