gurgitation

[ gur-ji-tey-shuhn ]

noun

1. a surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of water.

gurgitation

/ ˌɡɜːdʒɪˈteɪʃən /

noun

1. surging or swirling motion, esp of water

Word History and Origins

Origin of gurgitation¹

1535–45; < Latin gurgitāt ( us ) (past participle of gurgitāre to engulf, derivative of gurgit-, stem of gurges whirlpool; -ate ¹ ) + -ion

Word History and Origins

Origin of gurgitation¹

C16: from Late Latin gurgitātus engulfed, from gurgitāre to engulf, from Latin gurges whirlpool

Example Sentences

Embracing the bank, the two curved arms of a river came down in slow gurgitation of liquid ooze between screens of black-green vegetation.

From Project Gutenberg

The annals of gurgitation are dotted with strokes and blocked windpipes, of guts literally busted.

From Slate

Associated word: furuncular. boil, v. seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n. boiling. boil away. evaporate. boiling, a. seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering. boiling, n. ebullition, coction, effervescence, seething, gurgitation, simmering, ebullience. boisterous, a. noisy, tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish, unrestrained, rude. bold, a. daring, intrepid, brave; forward, immodest, rude, hoidenish, brazen, saucy, insolent, unabashed, audacious, pert, shameless, malapert; conspicuous, prominent, salient; steep, abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous, jagged.

From Project Gutenberg

Violence—spiritual violence—was what our luxurious hero feared; and it is not too much to say that as he lingered there by the sea, late into the night, while the gurgitation of the waves grew deeper to his ear, the prospect came to have an element of positive terror.

From Project Gutenberg

We have also the fact of two great promontories in Capes Horn and Good Hope, where this great tidal wave must strike against, and they produce constant oscillations of the water to and fro, and produce gurgitation and regurgitation in all the gulfs and rivers that line the coasts of the Northern, or more properly, the Land Hemisphere.

From Project Gutenberg