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   regurgitate

   /rɪˈɡəːdʒɪteɪt/

   verb

   • 1. bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth: "gulls regurgitate food for the chicks" Similar vomitbring updisgorgearchaic:regorge
   • ▪ (of a fluid) flow through a vessel or valve in the body in a direction opposite to normal: "an incompetent mitral valve allows blood to regurgitate into the left atrium throughout ventricular contraction"
   • 2. repeat (information) without analysing or comprehending it: "facts which can then be regurgitated at examinations" Similar repeatsay againrestaterecapitulateiteratereiteratereciterehearseparrotinformal:trot out

   Word Origin late 16th century: from medieval Latin regurgitat-, from the verb regurgitare, from Latin re- ‘again, back’ + gurges, gurgit- ‘whirlpool’.

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