Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To disgorge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To vomit up; eject from the stomach; throw back or out again.
- To swallow again or back.
- To devour to repletion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.
- transitive verb To swallow again; to swallow back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
disgorge orvomit . - verb To
swallow again; to swallow back.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They crop grief after grief, chewing the cud of grievance; for when they are full of it they disgorge and regorge the abhorred sum, and have stuff for their spleens for many
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil.
Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Paris is what, in figurative speech, they call 'flooded with pamphlets (regorge de brochures);' flooded and eddying again.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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But no matter, let them be rich; let them be blood-suckers; so much, God willing, shall they regorge into the treasury of the empire.
The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822
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His fear is -- that Blackwood may come as Nemesis, and compel him to regorge any puffing and cramming which Tiff has put into his pocket, and is earnest to have a letter addressed in an influential quarter to prevent this.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Haïti regorge de pétrole affirment Daniel et Ginette Mathurin
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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Le quartier regorge aussi de restaurants et de discothèques.
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-- furies of hell, burrowing snakes who regorge your food, and feed upon your own excrements; ye that are forever destroying, and forever reproducing your poison!
The Robbers Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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-- furies of hell, burrowing snakes who regorge your food, and feed upon your own excrements; ye that are forever destroying, and forever reproducing your poison!
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Ceylon; and the Mohammedan travelers speak of ambergris swallowed by whales, who are made sick and regorge it. "
The Arabian Nights Entertainments Anonymous 1921
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