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verb
To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To feed ravenously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To gorge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: reflexive
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verb
To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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verb
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eat
History
From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
