engorge

See also: engorgé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French engorger, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French engorgier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)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.

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

Related terms

• disgorge

Translations

to devour greedily

• Bulgarian: ям лакомо (jam lakomo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: ahmia (fi)

to feed ravenously

• Finnish: ahmia (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Translations to be checked

• Chinese: 狼吞虎嚥, 狼吞虎咽
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ждерати

  Roman: žderati

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian: žderati (sh)

Anagrams

• Goergen, reggeon

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French

Verb

engorge

1. first-person singular present indicative of engorger
2. third-person singular present indicative of engorger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of engorger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of engorger
5. second-person singular imperative of engorger