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gurgitation

UK/ˌɡɜː.dʒɪˈteɪ.ʃən//ˌɡɝ.d͡ʒəˈteɪ.ʃən/

gurgitation noun: the act of one who gurgitates.

Noun

gurgitation (countable and uncountable, plural gurgitations)

  1. The act of one who gurgitates.
  2. (uncountable) Competitive eating.
    • […] stand at the sanctum sanctorum of eating, the Mount Sinai of mastication, the Coliseum of competitive eating, the Madison Square Garden of gurgitation!2006 April 4, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 20
    • Once the occasion for manly pride, eating contests now faded into the hidden recesses of personal biography, [...] Into the delicate ecosystem of American gurgitation, the Federation introduced several new elements: first,[…]2007 05, Jason Fagone, Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 19

gurgitation meaning in Urdu

gurgitation in Urdu

ابھار

Forms of gurgitation

pluralgurgitations

Origin of gurgitation

A back-formation from regurgitation, or gurgitate + -ion.

Questions about gurgitation

What does gurgitation mean?
Gurgitation means the act of one who gurgitates.
What is gurgitation in Urdu?
Gurgitation in Urdu is ابھار. See Gurgitation meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is gurgitation?
Gurgitation is a noun.
How do you pronounce gurgitation?
Gurgitation is pronounced /ˌɡɜː.dʒɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of gurgitation?
The plural of gurgitation is gurgitations.

Words near gurgitation in the dictionary

  1. gurging
  2. gurgitate
  3. gurgitated
  4. gurgitates
  5. gurgitating
  6. gurgitation
  7. gurgitations
  8. gurgitator
  9. gurgitators
  10. gurgle
  11. gurgled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gurgitation (page history and authors); gurgitation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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