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Meaning of REGORGE

Pronunciation:  ri'gorj

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [v]  eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
 
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 Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up
 
 Antonyms: keep down
 
 See Also: egest, eliminate, excrete, pass

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Re*gorge"\ (r?*g?rj"), v. t. [F. regorder; re- + gorger
to gorge. Cf. {Regurgitate}.]
1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.
   --Hayward.
2. To swallow again; to swallow back.
         Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. --Dryden.
 

 

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