engorge
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
Definition of engorge
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
“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.”
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verb
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(transitive)To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
“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.”
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(intransitive)To feed ravenously.
“Greedily she engorged without restraint”
- To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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