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Regurgitate

/ɹɪˈɡɝd͡ʒəˌteɪt/

To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.

📖 Definitions of "Regurgitate"

verb

1
To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
2
To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.
"The young gulls were fed by their mother’s regurgitated food."
3
(by extension) To repeat verbatim.
4
To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
"Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth."

18 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
castverb	(physical) To move, or be moved, away.
catnoun	Terms relating to animals.
sickverb	(less common in the UK and Ireland) In poor health; ill.
disgorgeverb	To vomit or spew, to discharge.
vomitverb	(intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
spueverb	Obsolete form of spew. [(transitive) To eject forcibly and in a stream,]
retchverb	(transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
regorgeverb	To disgorge or vomit.
upchuckverb	(informal) To vomit.
barfnoun	(US, colloquial) Vomit.
honknoun	(transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.
throw upverb	(intransitive, transitive, now informal, bacteriology) To vomit.
reproduceverb	(transitive or intransitive, biology) To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
vomit upverb	(slang) To vomit.
be sickverb	(informal) To vomit.
chucknoun	(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
pukeverb	(colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
spewverb	(intransitive, informal) To vomit.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
keep downverb	(transitive) To repress.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
regorgeverb	To disgorge or vomit.
vomitverb	(intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
disgorgeverb	To vomit or spew, to discharge.
retchverb	(transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
pukeverb	(colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
upchuckverb	(informal) To vomit.
barfverb	(US, colloquial) To vomit.
throw upverb	(intransitive, transitive, now informal, bacteriology) To vomit.
spewverb	(intransitive, informal) To vomit.
honkverb	(transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.
be sickverb	(informal) To vomit.
sickverb	(British, Australia, colloquial) To vomit.
spueverb	Obsolete form of spew. [(transitive) To eject forcibly and in a stream,]
castverb	(physical) To move, or be moved, away.
catverb	(nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
chuckverb	(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
reproduceverb	(transitive or intransitive, biology) To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
vomit upverb	(slang) To vomit.
regurgeverb	(transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
revomitverb	(transitive) To vomit something back up.