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gurgitation

[ gur-ji-tey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. a surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of water.


gurgitation

/ ˌɡɜ˻åÏôɪˈ³Ù±ðɪʃə²Ô /

noun

  1. surging or swirling motion, esp of water
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gurgitation1

1535–45; < Latin ²µ³Ü°ù²µ¾±³ÙÄå³Ù ( us ) (past participle of ²µ³Ü°ù²µ¾±³ÙÄå°ù±ð to engulf, derivative of gurgit-, stem of gurges whirlpool; -ate 1 ) + -ion
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gurgitation1

C16: from Late Latin ²µ³Ü°ù²µ¾±³ÙÄå³Ùus engulfed, from ²µ³Ü°ù²µ¾±³ÙÄå°ù±ð to engulf, from Latin gurges whirlpool
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Example Sentences

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Embracing the bank, the two curved arms of a river came down in slow gurgitation of liquid ooze between screens of black-green vegetation.

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The annals of gurgitation are dotted with strokes and blocked windpipes, of guts literally busted.

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Associated word: furuncular. boil, v. seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n. boiling. boil away. evaporate. boiling, a. seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering. boiling, n. ebullition, coction, effervescence, seething, gurgitation, simmering, ebullience. boisterous, a. noisy, tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish, unrestrained, rude. bold, a. daring, intrepid, brave; forward, immodest, rude, hoidenish, brazen, saucy, insolent, unabashed, audacious, pert, shameless, malapert; conspicuous, prominent, salient; steep, abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous, jagged.

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Violence—spiritual violence—was what our luxurious hero feared; and it is not too much to say that as he lingered there by the sea, late into the night, while the gurgitation of the waves grew deeper to his ear, the prospect came to have an element of positive terror.

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We have also the fact of two great promontories in Capes Horn and Good Hope, where this great tidal wave must strike against, and they produce constant oscillations of the water to and fro, and produce gurgitation and regurgitation in all the gulfs and rivers that line the coasts of the Northern, or more properly, the Land Hemisphere.

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