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Engorge

//ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. transitive

    "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. 2
    overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself wordnet
  3. 3
    To feed ravenously. intransitive

    "Greedily she engorged without restraint"

  4. 4
    To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.

Etymology

From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.

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