This week’s theme
Unusual verbs for everyday actions

This week’s words
micturate
osculate
regurgitate
masticate
exungulate

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PRONUNCIATION:

(ri-GUHR-ji-tayt)

MEANING:

verb tr.:
1. To bring up undigested food through the mouth.
2. To repeat something without understanding it.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin regurgitare (to overflow or flow back), from re- (again) + gurgitare (to flood), from gurges (whirlpool). Earliest documented use: 1578.

USAGE:

“Ms Kendall appears to have swallowed this argument whole and regurgitated it in ill-digested chunks.”
Silence of the Lambs; The Times (London, UK); Jul 27, 2015.

See more usage examples of regurgitate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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