| 单词 |
regorge |
| 释义 |
regorge, v.|riːˈgɔːdʒ|
[ad. F. regorger (14th c.), or f. re- + gorge v., perh. after L. regurgitāre to regurgitate.]
1. trans. To disgorge or cast up again; to throw or cast back. lit. and fig. † Also with of.
1605M. Sutcliffe Brief Exam. 84 It is not much materiall, what is regorged out of such a gulfe of impieties. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode i. i, When you have regorged what you have taken in, you are the leanest things in nature. 1727Philip Quarll 27 Those Curses your populous and celebrated Cities regorge of. 1804R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 386 That water..must soon have reached the bottom, and there have been regorged back upon the soil. 1844Disraeli Coningsby ii. i, Ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their..spoil.
absol.1850Browning Easter Day xv, Then, each cleft The fire had been sucked back into, Regorged.
b. intr. To gush or flow back again.
1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Warrs Flanders 359 He therefore resolved to block up the Arches of the Bridg..so as the water might regorge back again into the fields. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. viii. §2 (1734) 193 The regorging Fluids..struggling and labouring under the Animal Functions. 1850Alison Hist. Europe (ed. 2) X. lxvii. §15. 217 The least east wind..makes their waters regorge and overspread a vast extent of level ground.
†c. intr. Of a place: To be flooded. Obs.—1
1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. v. iii. 329 The Narses ouerthrew..so many of the Franci in a set battell, that the territories about Capua regorged with humane blood.
2. trans. To engorge or swallow again. rare.
1700Dryden Sigism. & Guisc. 186 But as extremes are short, of ill and good, And tides at highest mark regorge the flood. 1894Whistler in Speaker 10 Nov. 516, I question if it be not without precedent that a writer ever before so abjectly regorged his spleen.
Hence † reˈgorgement, what has been regorged.
1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. i. x. 58 But what he hath done in that kind, he hath done many times by gathering up the regorgements of others. |
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