regurgitation

Other forms of regurgitation

plural

regurgitations·

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 regurgitation

What does regurgitation mean?

regurgitation means "backflow of blood through a defective heart valve". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regurgitation?

regurgitation has 6 syllables: re-gur-gi-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for regurgitation?

Close synonyms include vomit, vomiting, emesis, disgorgement, puking. 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 regurgitation a common word?

regurgitation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.