engorge
verb
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Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/
verb
Etymology: From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.
- 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.”
- To feed ravenously.
“Greedily she engorged without restraint”
- To gorge.
- To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.