Engorgement

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  • n. The process or the condition of becoming engorged, becoming over-filled with fluid.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
  • n. An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion.
  • n. The clogging of a blast furnace.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity.
  • n. In pathology, the state of being filled to excess, as the vessels of an organ with blood; hyperemia; congestion.
  • n. In metallurgy, the partial choking up of a blast-furnace by an accumulation of material not thoroughly fused. Ordinarily called scaffolding.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. congestion with blood
  • n. eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hyperaemia    hyperemia    feeding    eating   
    Synonym
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    glutting    congestion   
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