regurge

English

Etymology

A shortening of regurgitate.

Verb

regurge (third-person singular simple present regurges, present participle regurging, simple past and past participle regurged)

1. (transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
   • 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:

     A river girds the city west and south,
     The main north channel of a broad lagoon,
     Regurging with the salt tides from the mouth;

Noun

regurge (countable and uncountable, plural regurges)

1. (medicine) Regurgitation, resurging or reflux (of something, e.g. a fluid, through a suture, a valve, etc).