ingurgitate
verb (used with object)
to swallow greedily or in great quantity, as food.
ingurgitation
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a word derived from
ingurgitate.
Example Sentences
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But he took a cup of coffee, stirred part of its contents into the saucer and on to the Chesterfield, and began to sup the remainder with a prodigious splutter of ingurgitation.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
He loved small beer, and for that copious brew, To roll ingurgitation till he slept, Rations exchanged with flavour for the adept: And merrily plied him captain, mate and crew.
From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
Debilitated people, who have been unfortunately accustomed to great ingurgitation of spirituous potation, frequently part with a great quantity of water during the night, but with not more than usual in the day-time.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
