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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

overgorge en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + gorge.

Meanings

  1. To gorge to excess.
    • ambitious Sylla, overgorged With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Forms

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overgorges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overgorging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overgorged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overgorged Tense=Past lexicographic