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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENGORGE, v.t. engorj'. To swallow;; to devour; to gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness, or in large quantities.
ENGORGE, v.t. engorj'. To devour; to feed with eagerness or voracity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: Middle French engorgier, from Old French, to devour, from en- + gorge throat — more at gorge Date: 1515 transitive verb gorge, glut; especially to fill with blood to the point of congestion intransitive verb to suck blood to the limit of body capacity • engorgement noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 (in passive) a be crammed. b Med. be congested with blood. 2 devour greedily. Derivatives: engorgement n. Etymology: F engorger (as EN-(1), GORGE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Engorge En*gorge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engorged; p. pr. & vb. n. Engorging.] [Pref. en- + gorge: cf. F. engorger to obstruct, cram.] 1. To gorge; to glut. --Mir. for Mag. 2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Engorge En*gorge", v. i. To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. --Beaumont.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Gorge, devour, swallow up, swallow eagerly, gulp down. 2. (Med.) Fill to excess, stuff, glut, obstruct. II. v. n. Devour food, feed greedily, be gluttonous.

Moby Thesaurus

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