regorge

See also: regorgé

English

Etymology

From French regorger. Compare regurgitate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈɡɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
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Verb

regorge (third-person singular simple present regorges, present participle regorging, simple past and past participle regorged)

  1. To disgorge or vomit.
    • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: [] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, [], published 1630, →OCLC:
      it was scoffingly said that he had eaten the kings goose and did then regorge the feathers
  2. To swallow again; to swallow back.

Anagrams

French

Verb

regorge

  1. inflection of regorger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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