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re⋅gorge

  [ri-gawrj] verb -gorged, -gorg⋅ing.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to disgorge; cast up again.
–verb (used without object)
2. to rush back again; gush: The waters regorged.
Origin:
1595–1605; < F regorger, MF. See re-, gorge
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re·gorge   (rē-gôrj')   
tr.v.   re·gorged, re·gorg·ing, re·gorg·es
To disgorge.

[French regorger, from Old French : re-, re- + gorger, to gorge (from gorge, throat; see gorge).]
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Regorge

Re*gorge"\ (r?*g?rj"), v. t. [F. regorder; re- + gorger to gorge. Cf. Regurgitate.]

1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. --Hayward.

2. To swallow again; to swallow back.

Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. --Dryden.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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