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Engorge

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To devour greedily.

v. To gorge; glut.

v. To fill to excess, as with blood or other fluid.

verb-intransitive. To feed ravenously.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

v. To feed ravenously.

v. To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To gorge; to glut.

v. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

verb-intransitive. To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To swallow; devour; gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness or in large quantities.

To fill to excess; gorge; specifically, in medicine, to fill to excess with blood; cause hyperemia in.

To devour; feed with eagerness or voracity.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Word Usage

"The experienced are rendered obsolete, and grandparents are devalued; we all keep struggling to find the easiest way to do things, long after unnecessary expenditures of effort stop being life threatening -- and so we engorge."

Verb Form

engorged engorges engorging

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

eat

Cross Reference

engorged papilla

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

devour surfeit satiate obstruct