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engorge
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See also: engorgé
English
Etymology
From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.
Pronunciation
Verb
engorge (third-person singular simple present engorges, present participle engorging, simple past and past participle engorged)
- (transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To feed ravenously.
- 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:
- Greedily she engorged without restraint
- (pathology) To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.
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French
Verb
engorge
- inflection of engorger:
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