REGURGITATE


Meaning of REGURGITATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪgɜ:(r)dʒɪteɪt ]

( regurgitates, regurgitating, regurgitated)

1.

If you say that someone is regurgitating ideas or facts, you mean that they are repeating them without understanding them properly.

You can get sick to death of a friend regurgitating her partner’s opinions.

VERB : V n [ disapproval ]

2.

If a person or animal regurgitates food, they bring it back up from their stomach before it has been digested. ( FORMAL )

Sometimes he regurgitates the food we give him because he cannot swallow.

= bring up

VERB : V n

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