Meaning of gurgitate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To surge (rise) and fall ebulliently, like or as water.
2. To eat, especially to eat competitively (see competitive eating).

Examples

“From the gorge a faint steam rose like⟳ mist, and in the utter stillness I could hear⟳, far down, the sound⟳ of gurgitating waters. In a little while - how long I could not tell⟳ - the moment of eruption would return⟳ and flood⟳ the chasm.”

“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[…]”

“... 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).”

“His attitude to statistics can best be indicated by an expression that seems not to have⟳ been used in any of the classics, but which involves the idea that he masticates, and gurgitates them before life is extinct.”

“It's a head-nodder with Badlands' lyrical formula for gurgitating greatness laid over a loop from Thomas Dolby's eighties rock hit "She Blinded Me with Science." No bunson burners, or beakers [...] Just a competitive eater in sneakers[…]”

“[...] the stinkiest cheese, and the hungry "athlete" who excels at gurgitating plenty without regurgitating any[.]”

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