What's the difference between disgorge and regurgitate?

Disgorge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.
  • (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.
  • (v. i.) To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
  • (2) Days before Obiang Jr's private jet touched down, two massive lorries would pull up outside and disgorge a sea of fresh flowers to dress the interior of the mansion.
  • (3) Perhaps it was because, despite being the first portable music player, it wasn't as easy to lug around as the MP3 player; its chunky dimensions compelled it to be worn clipped to a belt, creating the danger that it would unclip itself – which it did with obnoxious regularity – and crash to the ground, disgorging its batteries.
  • (4) We disgorge on to the top floor and are card-scanned into the mayoral complex.
  • (5) The Treasury is disgorging its growth strategy before the autumn statement since it knows the day itself will be dominated by the Office for Budget Responsibility's new forecasts for growth, borrowing, unemployment and their consequences for its goal of eradicating the structural deficit by 2015-16.
  • (6) From 3am until early afternoon, some 120 blue buses had been and gone, disgorging an estimated 4,000 refugees.
  • (7) The $490m penalty is based on a $435m fine and the disgorgement of the $35m profit the bank is alleged to have made.
  • (8) Credit Suisse was fined $60m fine split between the SEC and NY attorney-general’s office, as well as a further $24.3m in disgorgement — which is designed to make it pay back ill-gotten gains - in relation to its dark pool called “Crossfinder”.
  • (9) Both candidates have ideas , some of them rather similar, to build more homes – 50,000 a year in Goldsmith’s case – mostly by persuading public bodies such as Transport for London (TfL) to disgorge some of the vast amount of brownfield land they own but do not use.
  • (10) Down the slope, past a snarl of blackberry bushes, is Canada’s largest container grain-loading facility, where trainloads of malt are disgorged into containers and then trucked off to the shipping terminals.
  • (11) Perched on the country’s eastern coastline, near to where the Yangtze disgorges its murky waters into the East China Sea, Rudong is the greyest corner of this rapidly ageing nation.
  • (12) Following a rule last year that would have made the liners pass west of the Giudecca to disgorge tourists at Venice docks, shipping operators lobbied so that their customers could continue viewing the city from the comfort of their deck chairs.
  • (13) We tell them, ‘you don’t have to fear any more,’ then we take them to the camps.” On the road past the rubbish-strewn yard where army trucks disgorge Mosul’s latest refugees, an American convoy rumbled past, while more jets roared overhead.
  • (14) And we've got a full-blown investigation, and all that information will be disgorged to Congress.
  • (15) "I sometimes think that remuneration committees and senior investment banking executives need to be reminded of this reality before they disgorge huge bonuses," he said.
  • (16) After the London market had closed, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced the scale of the fine – $435m, plus a $35m order to disgorge alleged profits made by the bank – for the alleged offences which are supposed to have taken place between 2006 and 2008.
  • (17) That included $350m in disgorgement – a repayment for the profits it was estimated to have made as a result of the bribery.
  • (18) Around 9am the ferries begin disgorging small groups of elderly tourists who want to look at the monastery, and large parties of Italian schoolchildren who really don’t want to look at the monastery but are being made to before they’re allowed to run screaming into the water.
  • (19) Promptly at 9am the highly organised camp in a legally squatted field (compensation payments ready for the brothers who farm it) disgorged a series of raiding parties in the direction of the cooling towers.
  • (20) One by one they came – vessels the size of tenement blocks – disgorging holidaymakers on to an esplanade dotted with little white buildings in scenes of exuberant commotion.

Regurgitate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
  • (v. i.) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 14-fold increase in prolonged apnea frequency immediately following regurgitation supports the hypothesis for a causal relationship between apnea and regurgitation.
  • (2) The pathoanatomy and factors associated with transient mitral regurgitation (MR) induced by myocardial ischemic stress are unknown.
  • (3) Postoperative examination revealed division of accessory pathway and no regurgitation of mitral prosthesis.
  • (4) Doppler mitral regurgitation (MR) was detected in 40 of the 47 patients (85%) with type C in 56 of the 99 (59%) with type B, and in seven of the 18 (39%) with type A.
  • (5) One child (case 1) exhibited nasal regurgitation during feeding.
  • (6) To determine the severity of regurgitation by dynamic MRI, several parameters were analyzed, including the number of slices with visible signal loss, the time course of the signal loss, and its maximal area and maximal volume.
  • (7) Without operative correction of the tricuspid valve, secondary tricuspid regurgitation can resolve following mitral valve surgery alone.
  • (8) Signs of mitral regurgitation of grade 1 could be documented angiographically in 9 patients and of grade 2 in 4 patients.
  • (9) Sixty-eight patients (mean age 49 years) were studied with contrast echocardiography (CE) and Doppler echocardiography (DE) to evaluate both methods for detecting and grading tricuspid regurgitation (TR).
  • (10) Case 2: A 40-year-old man with congestive heart failure and inflammatory signs had aortic and mitral regurgitation.
  • (11) Twelve patients had severe mitral regurgitation; successful mitral valve replacement was carried out in four patients (all with myxomatous mitral tissue).
  • (12) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (13) Isolated tricuspid valve regurgitation is a rare finding after nonpenetrating chest trauma.
  • (14) Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) was diagnosed with Doppler when reverse flow in systole was recorded at and behind the closure level of the tricuspid valve.
  • (15) We conclude that in most patients undergoing aortic valvuloplasty, regurgitation does not change after the procedure.
  • (16) All patients presented with severe oropharyngeal dysphagia and frequent aspiration together with pharyngooral and pharyngonasal regurgitation.
  • (17) On a series of 170 aortic valve replacement - 100 aortic stenoses (AS) and 70 aortic regurgitations (AR) - with an early post operative death rate of 5.3% and a late one of 8% (with a minimum follow up of 1 year and an average one of 25.4 months, two electrocardiographic and radiological checks could be done on 123 patients, 12 months on an average after the operation, and again for 116 patients, 21 months after the operation.
  • (18) In all cases, the maximal velocity of the tricuspid regurgitation jet was measured by continuous wave Doppler ultrasound and the systolic pressure gradient between right ventricle and the right atrium was calculated by the modified Bernoulli equation.
  • (19) In a multivariate Cox model analysis, the independent correlates of long-term survival were emergent operation with cardiogenic shock (multivariate mortality rate ratio [RR] = 14.0), use of a postoperative intraaortic balloon pump (RR = 3.9), ejection fraction less than 50% (RR = 2.4), preoperative history of congestive heart failure (RR = 2.2), cardiopulmonary bypass time (RR = 1.4 for each 30-minute increment), uncorrected mitral regurgitation (RR = 1.5 for each increment of angiographic gradation), left main coronary artery narrowing (RR = 1.7) and diabetes (RR = 1.6).
  • (20) This report details the pulsed Doppler echocardiographic findings in two patients who developed severe periprosthetic mitral regurgitation after porcine mitral valve replacement.