regurgitate

verb regurgitates · regurgitating · 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

   Similar: 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[…]
4. intransitive To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.

Similar: bait, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, bork, bow down before the porcelain god, cast up one's accounts, chuck, chuck up, chunder, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, get sick, heave, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, lose one's lunch, pray to the porcelain god, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, shoot the cat, sick, sick up · Opposite: defecate, ingest

noun regurgitates

1. Something regurgitated; regurgitated matter. However, the growing prevalence of plastics in some areas means these can be difficult for albatrosses to distinguish, leading to accidental ingestion. These may then accumulate in the gut or be passed to offspring through regurgitates.