regurge
English
Etymology
A shortening of regurgitate.
Verb
regurge (third-person singular simple present regurges, present participle regurging, simple past and past participle regurged)
- (transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
- 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
- A river girds the city west and south,
The main north channel of a broad lagoon,
Regurging with the salt tides from the mouth;
Noun
regurge (countable and uncountable, plural regurges)
- (medicine) Regurgitation, resurging or reflux (of something, e.g. a fluid, through a suture, a valve, etc).
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