engorge en · VERB
Pronunciation
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- /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.
Meanings
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(transitive) 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.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
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(intransitive) To feed ravenously.
Greedily she engorged without restraint
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- (reflexive) To gorge.
- To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| engorges | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| engorging | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| engorged | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| engorged | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
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Translations (5)
fi ahmia (to devour greedily) · cs hltat (to feed ravenously) · pl jeść łakomo (to devour greedily) · bg ям лакомо (to devour greedily) · fi ahmia (to feed ravenously)