Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to regurgitate
Participle: regurgitated
Gerund: regurgitating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | regurgitate |
| you | regurgitate |
| he;she;it | regurgitates |
| we | regurgitate |
| you | regurgitate |
| they | regurgitate |
Perfect
| I | have regurgitated |
| you | have regurgitated |
| he;she;it | has regurgitated |
| we | have regurgitated |
| you | have regurgitated |
| they | have regurgitated |
Past
| I | regurgitated |
| you | regurgitated |
| he;she;it | regurgitated |
| we | regurgitated |
| you | regurgitated |
| they | regurgitated |
Pluperfect
| I | had regurgitated |
| you | had regurgitated |
| he;she;it | had regurgitated |
| we | had regurgitated |
| you | had regurgitated |
| they | had regurgitated |
Future
| I | will regurgitate |
| you | will regurgitate |
| he;she;it | will regurgitate |
| we | will regurgitate |
| you | will regurgitate |
| they | will regurgitate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have regurgitated |
| you | will have regurgitated |
| he;she;it | will have regurgitated |
| we | will have regurgitated |
| you | will have regurgitated |
| they | will have regurgitated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | regurgitate |
| you | regurgitate |
| he;she;it | regurgitate |
| we | regurgitate |
| you | regurgitate |
| they | regurgitate |
Perfect
| I | have regurgitated |
| you | have regurgitated |
| he;she;it | have regurgitated |
| we | have regurgitated |
| you | have regurgitated |
| they | have regurgitated |
Imperfect
| I | regurgitated |
| you | regurgitated |
| he;she;it | regurgitated |
| we | regurgitated |
| you | regurgitated |
| they | regurgitated |
Pluperfect
| I | had regurgitated |
| you | had regurgitated |
| he;she;it | had regurgitated |
| we | had regurgitated |
| you | had regurgitated |
| they | had regurgitated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would regurgitate |
| you | would regurgitate |
| he;she;it | would regurgitate |
| we | would regurgitate |
| you | would regurgitate |
| they | would regurgitate |
Perfect
| I | would have regurgitated |
| you | would have regurgitated |
| he;she;it | would have regurgitated |
| we | would have regurgitated |
| you | would have regurgitated |
| they | would have regurgitated |
Imperative
| you | regurgitate |
| we | Let's regurgitate |
| you | regurgitate |
Verbs conjugated like 'regurgitate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'regurgitate'
ingurgitate,
reagitate,
regerminate,
resuscitate,
revirginate,
decurtate,
degravitate,
degustate,
demarginate,
depurinate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- vomit
- ug
- to regurgitate the contents of a stomach
- bait, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, cast up one's accounts, chunder, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, heave, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, puke, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, retch, sick up, spew, throw up, toss one's cookies, upchuck, vomit, yak
- To vomit.
- barf
- the toilet, usually when drunk
- pray to the porcelain god, worship the porcelain god
- eject
- spew, disgorge, vomit, erupt
Antonyms
- to regurgitate the contents of a stomach
- defecate, ingest
- to take into the body, as for digestion
- defecate, ingest
- eject
- place, fix, retain, appoint
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Late Latin regurgitātus, past participle of regurgitāre, combined form of re- (“back”) + gurgitāre (“to engulf, flood”), from gurges (“whirlpool, gulf, sea, abyss”).
Sample Sentences
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[…] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew. [2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: 'Under the hemiparasite', International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2014:]
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The young gulls were fed by their mother’s regurgitated food.
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The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read[…] [2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker:]
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Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.