Translation guide
The act of bringing swallowed food back up to the mouth, either involuntarily (medical) or voluntarily (e.g., by some animals to feed young).
To describe the passive, effortless return of undigested food from the esophagus or stomach, often due to a medical condition.
General term for backflow or reflux, commonly used in medical contexts for regurgitation of food or acid.
Regurgitation can occur after meals.
A plain, descriptive phrase meaning 'eaten food comes back up,' often used in everyday explanations of symptoms.
I feel like the food I eat comes right back up.
Technical term for rumination; can refer to human regurgitation disorder (反芻症) but is rare and primarily used for animals.
Rumination syndrome is a disorder where food is unconsciously brought back up.
To describe animals bringing up food to feed their young or to chew cud.
To describe mindlessly repeating facts or ideas without understanding or originality.
Idiom meaning to parrot or repeat something one has heard without thinking; close to 'regurgitate' in the figurative sense.
He's just regurgitating the teacher's opinions.
Literally 'memorize whole and spit out,' a vivid expression for rote regurgitation.
Literally 'parrot return,' meaning to repeat back exactly what was said, often used for mindless repetition.
Directly translating 'regurgitate' as 逆流する in figurative contexts will sound like a medical condition. Use 受け売り or おうむ返し instead.
He regurgitated the data. (unnatural)
牛は反芻をして食べ物を再び噛む。
Cows ruminate and chew their food again.
Studying just to memorize facts and regurgitate them for the exam is not good.
His answer was just a regurgitation of the textbook.