"gurgitate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: gurgitates [present, singular, third-person], gurgitating [participle, present], gurgitated [participle, past], gurgitated [past]
Etymology: From Latin. The first sense is related to gurges. For the second sense, compare gurgitator. Head templates: {{en-verb}} gurgitate (third-person singular simple present gurgitates, present participle gurgitating, simple past and past participle gurgitated)
  1. To surge (rise) and fall ebulliently, like or as water.
    Sense id: en-gurgitate-en-verb-NQDb4yZn
  2. To eat, especially to eat competitively (see competitive eating).
    Sense id: en-gurgitate-en-verb-UBhPzZkH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 65

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2010 March 16, Derek Walcott, White Egrets: Poems, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 59:",
          "text": "In both a cherub smiles at gurgitating, lion-headed fountains, their basins bright with chattering water, repetitious questions; one region consonantal, obdurate, the other vowelled. I pay both allegiance and gratitude, for lights net[…]",
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          "ref": "2012 April 5, R. I. G. Hughes, The Theoretical Practices of Physics: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 68:",
          "text": "... it input in certain prescribed forms for the desired output; it gurgitates for a while; then it drops out the sought-for representation; plonk, on the tray, fully formed, as Athena from the brain of Zeus' (Cartwright 1999: 247).",
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          "ref": "2011 October 1, Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Golden Plunger Awards, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:",
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          "text": "In both a cherub smiles at gurgitating, lion-headed fountains, their basins bright with chattering water, repetitious questions; one region consonantal, obdurate, the other vowelled. I pay both allegiance and gratitude, for lights net[…]",
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