MEANING
1. To bring swallowed material back into the mouth or outward from the upper digestive tract.
2. To repeat information mechanically without adequately understanding or examining it.
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Words that belong together
- regurgitate food
- regurgitated material
On the page
The creature regurgitated the material it had swallowed.
The account distinguished regurgitated food from a secretion produced by the new organ.
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Word forms
- Base
- regurgitate
- Past tense
- regurgitated
- Past participle
- regurgitated
- Present participle
- regurgitating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- regurgitate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are regurgitating
- Present perfect
- have/has regurgitated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been regurgitating
- Past
- regurgitated
- Past continuous
- was/were regurgitating
- Past perfect
- had regurgitated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been regurgitating
- Future
- will regurgitate
- Future continuous
- will be regurgitating
- Future perfect
- will have regurgitated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been regurgitating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: regurgitate; regurgitates; regurgitated; regurgitated; regurgitating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: regurgitates.
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