regurgitate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they regurgitate | |
| he / she / it regurgitates | |
| past simple regurgitated | |
| past participle regurgitated | |
| -ing form regurgitating |
- regurgitate something (formal)
to bring food that has been swallowed back up into the mouth again 使（咽下的食物）返回到口中；反刍 The bird regurgitates half-digested fish to feed its young. 鸟类把半消化的鱼吐出来喂自己的雏鸟。
- regurgitate something (disapproving)
to repeat something you have heard or read without really thinking about it or understanding it 照搬；拾人牙慧
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin regurgitat-, from the verb regurgitare, from Latin re- ‘again, back’ + gurges, gurgit- ‘whirlpool’.