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gorged

[ gawrjd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Heraldry.

(of a beast) represented wearing something about the neck in the manner of a collar:
a lion gules gorged with a collar or.

Origin of gorged¹

First recorded in 1600–10; gorge ¹ + -ed ³

They gorged themselves in their mess halls, tossing away mountains of food as starving locals looked on.

More often than not, this female ninja comes to us via a writer who has gorged on graphic novels for most of his life.

When dawn breaks, he returns gorged with food to his lair, leaving the ground strewn with the bodies of the slain.

It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

France has gorged Kabylia, with the rest of Algeria, but she has never digested it.

Seals came up everywhere, and the dogs gorged on much-needed meat and blubber.

In fact, for a year the island had been so gorged with tragedy that it no longer caused remark.

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