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Other forms: regurgitated; regurgitating; regurgitates

To regurgitate is to bring already swallowed food back up through one's throat and out the mouth. Not so nice in humans, but much more understandable (if still gross) in birds — who feed their baby chicks by regurgitating.

Definitions of regurgitate

Finished cramming for your exam? Ready to do a data dump? Then you're about to regurgitate all you've learned — repeat information verbatim without any real understanding or analysis of it. Don't worry, everyone does it, from high school and college students, to grown-ups in corporate boardrooms.

Question

regurgitate means to:

A. come or be in close contact with
B. become putrid
C. pour or rush back
D. split or divide into two