engorge

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
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ

Verb

engorge (third-person singular simple present engorges, present participle engorging, simple past and past participle engorged)

  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive) To feed ravenously.
  3. (pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.

Translations
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Anagrams

French

Verb

engorge

  1. inflection of engorger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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