| regurgitate | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. regurgitate | pour or rush back.; "The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle" |
| ~ pour | flow in a spurt.; "Water poured all over the floor" |
| v. (consumption) | 2. regurgitate | feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food.; "many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest" |
| ~ feed, give | give food to.; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" |
| v. (communication) | 3. regurgitate, reproduce | repeat after memorization.; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" |
| ~ echo, repeat | to say again or imitate.; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" |
| v. (body) | 4. barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up | eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" |
| ~ egest, excrete, eliminate, pass | eliminate from the body.; "Pass a kidney stone" |
| spit | | |
| n. (object) | 1. spit, tongue | a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea. |
| ~ cape, ness | a strip of land projecting into a body of water. |
| ~ sand | a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral. |
| n. (body) | 2. saliva, spit, spittle | a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches. |
| ~ secretion | a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell. |
| ~ slobber, dribble, drivel, drool | saliva spilling from the mouth. |
| ~ tobacco juice | saliva colored brown by tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco). |
| ~ salivary gland | any of three pairs of glands in the mouth and digestive system that secrete saliva for digestion. |
| ~ ptyalin | an amylase secreted in saliva. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. spit | a skewer for holding meat over a fire. |
| ~ brochette | a small spit or skewer. |
| ~ rack, stand | a support for displaying various articles.; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack" |
| ~ skewer | a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted. |
| ~ turnspit | a roasting spit that can be turned. |
| n. (act) | 4. expectoration, spit, spitting | the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva). |
| ~ ejection, forcing out, expulsion, projection | the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting. |
| v. (body) | 5. ptyalise, ptyalize, spew, spit, spue | expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth.; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer" |
| ~ cough out, cough up, expectorate, spit up, spit out | discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth. |
| v. (communication) | 6. spit, spit out | utter with anger or contempt. |
| ~ let loose, let out, utter, emit | express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words).; "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand" |
| v. (weather) | 7. patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle | rain gently.; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" |
| ~ rain, rain down | precipitate as rain.; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding" |
| v. (contact) | 8. skewer, spit | drive a skewer through.; "skewer the meat for the BBQ" |
| ~ pin | pierce with a pin.; "pin down the butterfly" |
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