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engorge

/ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/ UK

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ

Where it comes from

From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.

verb engorges · engorging · engorged

transitive To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
intransitive To feed ravenously. Greedily she engorged without restraint
reflexive To gorge.
To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.

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@misc{engorge_2026,
  title = {engorge},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/engorge},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}