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^[1]:

     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.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Greedily she engorged without restraint

3. (pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.

Related terms

• disgorge

Translations

to devour greedily

• Bulgarian: ям лакомо (jam lakomo)
• Finnish: ahmia (fi)

to feed ravenously

• Finnish: ahmia (fi)

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• Chinese: 狼吞虎嚥／狼吞虎咽 (zh) (lángtūnhǔyàn), 狼吞虎咽 (zh) (lángtūnhǔyàn)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ждерати

  Roman: žderati

• Serbo-Croatian: žderati (sh)

Anagrams

• Goergen, reggeon

French

Verb

engorge

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