to regurgitate
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7.7
- verb
- /rɪˈɡɜrʤɪˌteɪt/
:
regurgitar
- For their first three months, hoatzin chicks are fed a sticky, greenish, predigested mash that the adults regurgitate from their crops.
- regurgitated the food
- birds regurgitate
- adults regurgitate
So there are some workers who stay down in the nest and other ants feed them by regurgitating.
- So there are some workers who stay down in the nest and other ants feed them by regurgitating.
Examples
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After eating, some animals regurgitate their food to feed their newborns.
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Student: Yeah, it's like what we watched on the video, and the owls regurgitate what they eat.
Academic text (2014) -
Females of this species feed each other with regurgitated blood and engage in allogrooming.
Academic text (2008) -
When the seed has been cleaned of nutrients, the bird regurgitates it and spits it out onto the ground.
Academic text (2010) -
First, the cubs played with the three returning adults and were cleaned before the adults regurgitated the food from their stomachs to feed the cubs.
Academic text (2005) -
Tedesco saw the adult wolves regurgitating food for the pups at a rendezvous site.
Academic text (1996) -
The mother bird regurgitates food for her chicks after catching it in her beak.
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The owl regurgitates pellets made of undigested parts of its prey, which can be found on the forest floor.
Synonyms
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2.3
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
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6.6
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
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1.0
To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth
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1.7
To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth
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7.7
To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth
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9.3
To throw up what is in the stomach
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5.7
To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach
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8.2
To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick
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9.6
To be sick and bring food up from your stomach
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9.9
Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much
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9.5
To force food or drink out of your mouth
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9.3
To throw up when you feel sick
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8.8
To throw up food and drink from your stomach
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3.6
Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth
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7.4
To throw up
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9.9
To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit
To bring food or liquid back into the mouth from the stomach without strong vomiting
To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick
To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Forceful
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2.3
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7.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
regurgitate = gurgitate (semi-transparent) = re + gurgitate
Formed by prefixing re- to 'gurgitate' so the idea of 'back' is clear, but the base 'gurgitate' is relatively rare and Latin-derived, so the relation is not fully transparent to an average learner.
Etymology
Regurgitate comes from Latin parts re- 'back' and gurgitare 'to flow', a root you can also see in the English word gurgle. So to regurgitate food is to 'flow back' up into the mouth, like a gurgling return.