regorge
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See also: regorgé
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French regorger. Compare regurgitate.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
regorge (third-person singular simple present regorges, present participle regorging, simple past and past participle regorged)
- To disgorge or vomit.
- 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:
- it was scoffingly said that he had eaten the kings goose and did then regorge the feathers
- To swallow again; to swallow back.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
regorge
- inflection of regorger: