regorge

verb — 2 senses

regorge

verb

/ɹɪˈɡɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/

Etymology From French regorger. Compare regurgitate.

1

To disgorge or vomit.

  • it was scoffingly said that he had eaten the kings goose and did then regorge the feathersa. 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:
2

To swallow again; to swallow back.

  • Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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