Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
regorge .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word regorged.
Examples
-
What wild sea did bear, what billows foamy regorged thee?
Poems and Fragments 2006
-
What wild sea did bear, what billows foamy regorged thee?
Poems and Fragments 2006
-
Koran: -- '_Eat ye and drink ye, but not to an excess_:' -- eat not so voraciously that the food shall be regorged from thy mouth, nor so abstemiously that from depletion life shall desert thee: -- though food be the means of preserving breath in the body.
-
What wild sea did bear, what billows foamy regorged thee?
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
-
Bays and passes were swollen to abysses; rivers regorged; the sea-marshes were changed to raging wastes of water.
Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877
-
Golden Streams had no Ebb, that a Purse mouth never regorged, that God loved a chearful giver but the Devil hated a free taker, that a paid
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
-
This denial of landed property to the gross of the people has this further evil effect in preventing the improvement of land, that it prevents any of the property acquired in trade to be regorged, as it were, upon the land.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
-
When you have regorged what you have taken in, you are the leanest things in nature.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 John Dryden 1665
-
The birds had cords tied round their necks, the idea being that any small fish they caught could be swallowed but anything larger would stop and be regorged for the fisherman to collect.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.