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regorge

American  
[ri-gawrj] / rɪˈgɔrdʒ /

verb (used with object)

regorged, regorging
  1. to disgorge; cast up again.


verb (used without object)

regorged, regorging
  1. to rush back again; gush.

    The waters regorged.

regorge British  
/ rɪˈɡɔːdʒ /

verb

  1. (tr) to vomit up; disgorge

  2. (intr) (esp of water) to flow or run back

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of regorge

First recorded in 1595–1605, regorge is from the French word regorger, Middle French. See re-, gorge 1

Example Sentences

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They crop grief after grief, chewing the cud of grievance; for when they are full of it they disgorge and regorge the abhorred sum, and have stuff for their spleens for many a year.'

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

As to finding p. 246them out to make them regorge that was out of the question. 

From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

But no matter, let them be rich; let them be blood-suckers; so much, God willing, shall they regorge into the treasury of the empire.

From The Caesars by De Quincey, Thomas

That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield