Meaning & use
regurgitate
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To bring swallowed food back up to the mouth, or to repeat information without truly understanding or thinking about it.
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Some birds regurgitate food to feed their chicks.
The student simply regurgitated facts from the textbook instead of explaining them in his own words.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense, repeating information mindlessly, is common in academic criticism of rote learning.
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