Regurgitated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To bring back swallowed food from the stomach to the mouth ; to repeat information or ideas without adding new insight or original thought
2. To eject partially digested food from the stomach through the mouth ; to restate something learned or heard in a mechanical or unthinking way
3. To throw up or disgorge food previously swallowed ; to recite or reiterate facts or opinions without personal input or change

Etymology: Regurgitated comes from a whirlpool. Latin "gurges" meant a whirlpool, gulf or abyss, and the verb "gurgitare" meant to engulf or flood, so the word's core image is water being swallowed and churned. Add the prefix "re-", meaning back, and you get the literal sense of something flowing back up out of a deep place. The Late Latin form "regurgitare" carried that watery sense into the language, and the English verb "regurgitate" was built from its past participle. The English meaning started out physical, a backward gush of liquid, and only later took on the figurative sense of repeating facts or opinions without adding anything of one's own. The word therefore moves from a bodily image to a description of mental parroting.

Synonyms: vomited, spat, returned, rejected, ejected

Antonyms: swallowed, absorbed, ingested, digested, consumed