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engorge

verb
/ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/UK

Etymology

From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.

  1. derived from engorgier
  2. derived from engorger

Definitions

  1. To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

    • One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

  2. To feed ravenously.

    • Greedily she engorged without restraint

  3. To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.

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Derived

engorgement

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA