Regurgitate vs Regorge - What's the difference?
regurgitate | regorge |
To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
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To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as a bird or animal does.
(by extension) To repeat verbatim.
To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
To disgorge or vomit.
To swallow again; to swallow back.
* Dryden
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)- The young gulls were fed by their mother's regurgitated food.
- 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 alsoExternal links
* *regorge
English
Verb
(regorg)- (Hayward)
- Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.