regurgitated

verb

past tense of regurgitate
as in vomited
to discharge (something) previously consumed The mother dog regurgitates her food to feed her puppies.

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Recent Examples of regurgitated Before that procedure took place, however, Guinness regurgitated the plush toy Sunday night, according to a zoo spokesperson. — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 22 June 2026 On Monday, the zoo announced that Guinness had regurgitated the plush. — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 22 June 2026 Paleontologists have documented over 100 prehistoric avian dinosaur remains buried across the region, many resembling the digestive pellets regurgitated by owls living today. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 June 2026 As the caterpillar ingests the leaf, its gut enzymes chop up the plant’s cellular engines and their pieces, including In11, are regurgitated back onto the leaf’s surface, albeit at extremely small concentrations. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026 What the birds cannot digest is regurgitated into a pellet. — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 12 May 2026 The woman who regurgitated everything to you was wrong as well. — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 8 May 2026 Firecracker became extremely loyal to Homelander and regurgitated his radical conservative views to the public. — Staff Author, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026 If the story sounds like a lot, the animation style gives no relief, with its psychedelic and vulgar sci-fi sequences that see characters relentlessly mutilated, consumed, and regurgitated. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regurgitated
  1. vomited
  2. expelled
  3. hurled
  4. ejected
Verb
  • The next day, Djokovic vomited on the court during the fifth set and lost.
    — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Allegedly, so many cinema-goers vomited and fainted during the initial screenings of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) that theatre staff had to hand out smelling salts.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of vomited
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  • The attorney general's office on Thursday formally charged Fernando Farias, a high-ranking officer who was expelled last week from Argentina, with fuel smuggling.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • As a result, students who should have been suspended, expelled, or otherwise held accountable for dangerous or disruptive behavior remained in the classroom.
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of expelled
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  • Loaded trucks plodded through the crowd with people in their cargo beds throwing tomatoes at the revelers — who, in turn, hurled them at one another.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • When a massive riot erupted at Soledad on Cinco de Mayo in 1968, Trejo hurled a rock that smashed a prison guard in the head.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of hurled
Verb
  • Plate umpire Alan Porter tossed Vitello and first-base ump Jim Wolf ejected Webb, who was not pitching Friday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Days later, a former NBA player who has used the WNBA as a vehicle for anti-trans advocacy was ejected from a Chicago Sky game, after engaging in an altercation with team guard Natasha Cloud.
    — Odette Yousef, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of ejected

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“Regurgitated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regurgitated. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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