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regorge

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  1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
    After drinking too much, the students vomited
    He purged continuously

How To Use regorge In A Sentence

  • Koran: -- '_Eat ye and drink ye, but not to an excess_:' -- eat not so voraciously that the food shall be regorged from thy mouth, nor so abstemiously that from depletion life shall desert thee: -- though food be the means of preserving breath in the body. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
  • Ceylon; and the Mohammedan travelers speak of ambergris swallowed by whales, who are made sick and regorge it. The Arabian Nights Entertainments
  • But no matter, let them be rich; let them be blood-suckers; so much, God willing, shall they regorge into the treasury of the empire. The Caesars
  • Bays and passes were swollen to abysses; rivers regorged; the sea-marshes were changed to raging wastes of water. Chita: a Memory of Last Island
  • This denial of landed property to the gross of the people has this further evil effect in preventing the improvement of land, that it prevents any of the property acquired in trade to be regorged, as it were, upon the land. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
  • His fear is -- that Blackwood may come as Nemesis, and compel him to regorge any puffing and cramming which Tiff has put into his pocket, and is earnest to have a letter addressed in an influential quarter to prevent this. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
  • The tides at highest mark regorge the flood.
  • When you have regorged what you have taken in, you are the leanest things in nature. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
  •     What wild sea did bear, what billows foamy regorged thee? Poems and Fragments
  • What wild sea did bear, what billows foamy regorged thee? The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
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