regurgitating

Verb

regurgitate (third-person singular simple present regurgitates, present participle regurgitating, simple past and past participle regurgitated)

1. (transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
   • […] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the...2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: 'Under the hemiparasite', International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times, archived from...

   Synonyms:

   vomit, throw up, cast, disgorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, upchuck

2. (transitive) To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.
   • The young gulls were fed by their mother’s regurgitated food.
3. (derogatory, figuratively, sometimes, transitive) To repeat (information) verbatim or by rote, typically after learning it without actual comprehension.
   • The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read[…]2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker
4. (intransitive) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
   • Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.

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