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verb
- 1. bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth: "gulls regurgitate food for the chicks" Similar
- 2. repeat (information) without analysing or comprehending it: "facts which can then be regurgitated at examinations" Similar
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REGURGITATE definition: 1. to bring back swallowed food into the mouth: 2. If you regurgitate facts, you just repeat what…. Learn more.
The meaning of REGURGITATE is to become thrown or poured back. How to use regurgitate in a sentence. Did you know?
If you say that someone is regurgitating ideas or facts, you mean that they are repeating them without understanding them properly. You can get sick to death of a friend regurgitating her partner's opinions. [VERB noun] If a person or animal regurgitates food, they bring it back up from their stomach before it has been digested.
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.
Regurgitate definition: to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.. See examples of REGURGITATE used in a sentence.
1. to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, or undigested food. 2. to vomit. 3. to give back or repeat, esp. something not fully understood or assimilated: to regurgitate a teacher's lectures. re•gur′gi•tant (-tənt) n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.
If you say that someone is regurgitating ideas or facts, you mean that they are repeating them without understanding them properly. [disapproval] [...] 2. If a person or animal regurgitates food, they bring it back up from their stomach before it has been digested. [formal] [...] present simple: I regurgitate, you regurgitate [...]
Definition of regurgitate verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you say that someone is regurgitating ideas or facts, you mean that they are repeating them without understanding them properly. [disapproval] [...] 2. If a person or animal regurgitates food, they bring it back up from their stomach before it has been digested. [formal] [...] present simple: I regurgitate, you regurgitate [...]
When someone regurgitates information, they simply recall it from memory and repeat it, often in a mechanical or robotic manner, without engaging with the substance or meaning of the information. Regurgitation is often associated with rote learning, memorization, and surface-level understanding, as opposed to deep, critical thinking and analysis.
