regorge

Other forms of regorge

past tense

regorged·

present participle

regorging·

third person

regorges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about regorge

What does regorge mean?

regorge means "eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth".

How many syllables are in regorge?

regorge has 2 syllables and divides as re-gorge under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for regorge?

Close synonyms include vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is regorge a common word?

regorge is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.