engorge
to swallow greedily; glut or gorge: The fish love to follow the boat and engorge on bait.
to congest or swell with a bodily fluid, as milk ducts in the breast or blood vessels in a part of the body: As these blood vessels engorge, they put pressure on a large cranial nerve.Your breasts may become painfully engorged if the baby does not feed properly.
to swell with any fluid: The Yellow River becomes engorged during the summer monsoon season.
to overfill or oversupply with anything: It seems that the market is already so engorged, it just can’t absorb any more tech right now.
Origin of engorge
1Other words from engorge
- en·gorge·ment, noun
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How to use engorge in a sentence
In the tear-down culture in which we engorge ourselves like ticks bloated on blood, I guess he truly is the King.
British Dictionary definitions for engorge
/ (ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ) /
pathol to congest with blood
to eat (food) ravenously or greedily
to gorge (oneself); glut; satiate
Derived forms of engorge
- engorgement, noun
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