regorge

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/ɹɪˈɡɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/

verb

To disgorge or vomit.

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vomitvomit uppurgecastsickcatbe sickdisgorge
OriginFrench regorger →
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Meanings

verbregorge (third-person singular simple present regorges, present participle regorging, simple past and past participle regorged)

present singular third person regorges · participle present regorging · participle past regorged · past regorged

  1. To disgorge or vomit.

    it was scoffingly said that he had eaten the kings goose and did then regorge the feathers

    a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC
  2. To swallow again; to swallow back.

    Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.

    1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

verbeject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Similar
vomitvomit uppurgecastsickcatbe sickdisgorgeretchpukebarfspewspuechuckupchuckhonkregurgitatethrow up
Broader
excreteegesteliminate
Also see
barfbe sickcastcatchuckdisgorgehonkpukepurgeregurgitateretchsickspewthrow upupchuckvomitvomit up

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchregorger
  2. Englishregorge

From French regorger. Compare regurgitate.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Georger
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APA

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MLA

“regorge.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regorge. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “regorge,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regorge.

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