regurgitate

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Needless to say my time has been filled with a lot of memorize and regurgitate, and a lot of sleepless nights, but I completed the last one today, so the "hardest" (so I've heard) part of the course is now over.

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  1. intransitive verb To rush or surge back.
  2. transitive verb To cause to pour back, especially to cast up (partially digested food).

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  • You can regurgitate, or whatever you do, in the quiet of our room tonight. —  GALAXY
  • No one cares what lies and stupidity you want to regurgitate on this message board. —  Think Progress
  • Again MORON you regurgitate the idiocy you have been brainwashed with quite well. —  Think Progress
  • From the think tanks propped up by big business, the demagogic talk shows that blast out twenty-four hours of nonsense, to the television news shows and channels that regurgitate the propaganda and even the right wing blogs that were product of GOP consultants, the conservative movement has a well oil machine that has sold the nation on ill-conceived wars, tax policy, and the like. —  Oliver Willis
  • First of all, an acceptance speech at a political nominating convention isn't necessarily to time to demonstrate your ability to regurgitate facts about the situation in upper Kyrgyzstan, the impact of the dollar on the price of oil, or international trade. —  Below The Beltway
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  1. Medieval Latin regurgitāre, regurgitāt-, to overflow : Latin re-, re- + Late Latin gurgitāre, to engulf, flood (from Latin gurges, gurgit-, whirlpool).

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  1. from Middle Latin regurgitatus, past participle of regurgitare (later Italian regurgitare =Spanish Portuguese regurgitar =Old French regurgiter, French régurgiter), regurgitate, from Late Latin re-, back, + gurgitare, engulf, flood: see gurgitation.
 

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/rəˈgərdʒɪteɪt/
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