Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A whirling or surging motion, as of water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of boiling water.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They are trained in the school system here to be re-gurgitation robots and not to critically think.
The American Monkey Maya Chalee 2005
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They are trained in the school system here to be re-gurgitation robots and not to critically think.
Archive 2005-09-01 Maya Chalee 2005
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We have also the fact of two great promontories in Capes Horn and Good Hope, where this great tidal wave must strike against, and they produce constant oscillations of the water to and fro, and produce gurgitation and regurgitation in all the gulfs and rivers that line the coasts of the Northern, or more properly, the
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Appeal -- to-the -- Bishop, seemed to be the speech of the jetting gurgitation under the glass lid.
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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Violence -- spiritual violence -- was what our luxurious hero feared; and it is not too much to say that as he lingered there by the sea, late into the night, while the gurgitation of the waves grew deeper to his ear, the prospect came to have an element of positive terror.
Confidence 1879
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Gilbey’s goatswhey which is his prime consolation, albeit involving upon the same no uncertain amount of esophagous re — gurgitation, he being personally unpreoccupied to the extent of
Finnegans Wake 2006
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