Engorge

Word ENGORGE
Character 7
Hyphenation en gorge
Pronunciations /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Engorge"

What do we mean by engorge?

To devour greedily. intransitive verb

To gorge; glut. intransitive verb

To fill to excess, as with blood or other fluid. intransitive verb

To feed ravenously. intransitive verb

To swallow; devour; gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness or in large quantities.

To fill to excess; gorge; specifically, in medicine, to fill to excess with blood; cause hyperemia in.

To devour; feed with eagerness or voracity.

To gorge; to glut. transitive verb

To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. transitive verb

To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. intransitive verb

To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. verb

To feed ravenously. verb

To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood. verb

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself verb

To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

To feed ravenously.

To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Engorge

The word "engorge" in example sentences

Except, of course, when they watch football games or go on holiday to Spain, engorge vast quantities of beer, and turn into later-day Vandals. ❋ Eric Margolis (2010)

The safe silliness of Beck's villain aside, progressive readers would be hard-pressed to disagree with the novel's main premise: a misinformed and apathetic populace has allowed America to be captured by oligarchic elites, elites who masterfully manipulate public opinion to perpetrate the system by which they engorge themselves on the citizenry. ❋ Barry Eisler (2010)

The experienced are rendered obsolete, and grandparents are devalued; we all keep struggling to find the easiest way to do things, long after unnecessary expenditures of effort stop being life threatening -- and so we engorge. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are not going back to the failed policies of trickle-down economics where targeted tax breaks engorge the rich and corporate elite while the rest of us scrape for scraps and thirst for the trickle! ❋ Unknown (2010)

A whole new flood of comments and questions would engorge our page, and Arielle's fingers would fly over the keyboard as our brains moved into hyperdrive, accelerating evolutionarily at the speed of the worldwideweb. ❋ David Henry Sterry (2010)

Chemicals also get triggered in the penis that prevent the blood from easily flowing out, so that the tissues can stay filled with blood and engorge. ❋ M.D. Myles Spar (2010)

She beats herself up day after day, evening after evening, before, during, and after she engages in the-engorge-and-eliminate process. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(The "OUR" of course refers to Murdoch's News International mega-corporation -- not the millions of working-class Sun readers who will be economically raped and pillaged to pay for tax cuts that will massively engorge Murdoch's already swollen empire). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Despite the locals 'attempts to engorge me with their foie gras at every meal, as well as with unending Three Musketeers references, I have very much enjoyed several days of tastings. ❋ Jason Wilson (2010)

His idea has always been to engorge the middle and, in so doing, to cut off the blood-supply of the extremes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon", observes Daniel Bell in The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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