What does regorge mean?
Definitions for regorge
re·gorge
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Princeton's WordNet
vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw upverb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
Wiktionary
regorgeverb
To disgorge or vomit
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Regorgeverb
Etymology: re and gorge.
It was scoffingly said, he had eaten the king’s goose, and did then regorge the feathers. John Hayward.
Drunk with wine,
And fat regorg’d of bulls and goats. John Milton, Agonistes.As tides at highest mark regorge the flood,
So fate, that could no more improve their joy,
Took a malicious pleasure to destroy. Dryden.
ChatGPT
regorge
Regorge is a verb which means to overflow or to be full to bursting. It can also mean to throw up or eject what has previously been swallowed. It is often used metaphorically to describe an excess or abundant amount of something.
Webster Dictionary
Regorgeverb
to vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back
Regorgeverb
to swallow again; to swallow back
Etymology: [F. regorder; re- + gorger to gorge. Cf. Regurgitate.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Regorge
rē-gorj′, v.t. to swallow again: (Milt.) to swallow eagerly: to vomit, to throw back.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of regorge in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of regorge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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