to regurgitate
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7.7
- verb
- /rɪˈɡɜrʤɪˌteɪt/
:
repetir
- When studying for the exam, he would regurgitate his notes word for word, even if he didn't understand the material.
- regurgitating facts
They're just not a good person to sit there and regurgitate test questions, right?
- They're just not a good person to sit there and regurgitate test questions, right?
- The media are just regurgitating what the government says.
- People can like watch a thing and then regurgitate all the things they heard.
- You aren't just regurgitating some like lines and that you've memorized.
- Your book Outlive beautifully covered these, and I tend to regurgitate some of what you say on this podcast.
- And that the popular thing is to is to, you know, say that and regurgitate those facts that, that you've read.
- It may only regurgitate patterns, but visuals are simply regurgitated patterns.
- You can just read what's popular, regurgitate that, and then congratulations, everybody likes you.
- A robot really just, like, regurgitates things, entrenches them and could influence other people.
- It really gets to the point that this is not simply regurgitating a brave new world, It's actually getting to the the salient elements of soma as a drug.
- You're not just going to regurgitate what you've heard as ideology because if you are well spoken, you're also a thinker, which means you are well read.
- What we do is we feed them information, they process information, they go to an exam, they regurgitate information.
- Second of all, fast fashion, literally just listings and regurgitate stuff at the speed of light.
- They had the NCAS agent take the stand again and just regurgitate and everything.
Examples
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By the time the barber, baker, shoeshine boy, or your friends regurgitate this news, it is worthless information.
Blog text (2) -
But debates should not be platforms for candidates to just regurgitate their talking points.
Blog text (11) -
"You feel like you just have to learn and regurgitate it."
Academic text (2009) -
Most college students study enough to regurgitate on a test and then immediately forget it.
Blog text (17) -
If you pay attention to the majority of "news" programs, they all regurgitate the same information.
Blog text (2) -
It's not enough to stuff students' heads with information and ask them to regurgitate it.
Academic text (2006) -
The media are just regurgitating what the government says.
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Students do not learn critical thinking or communication skills from listening to and regurgitating lectures; more active learning methods are needed.
Academic text (1998) -
Even attending top schools, you can't memorize and regurgitate your way to becoming an innovator like Jobs.
Blog text (4) -
How is it that we've come to a place where outrageously ridiculous concepts seem to be just regurgitated on the BBC without any questions?
Synonyms
710
1.6
To repeat someone else's exact words from a book, speech, or person
100
5.9
To say something again to make it clear
86
3.5
Say something aloud from memory in front of other people
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6.4
To present old ideas again with only small changes
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3.4
To say something again in a different, clearer way
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6.4
To repeat words or actions without understanding them
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3.9
To say or write something exactly as you remember it
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7.7
To repeat facts or ideas without understanding them
1
7.8
To do something again in the same way to copy the original
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Surface Forms
Morphology
regurgitate = gurgitate (semi-transparent) = re + gurgitate
The figurative meaning 'bring back up mentally' is recognizable from the literal 'bring back up physically', but this is a metaphorical extension rather than a direct literal derivation.
Etymology
Regurgitate comes from Latin re- 'back' and gurgitare 'to flow', which you can feel in the English word gurgle. A helpful way to remember this use is to think of someone 'bringing words back up' from memory, so to regurgitate ideas is to repeat them without real thought.