Etymology

engorge

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Today it means: To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. Full definition →

French engorger ← Old French engorgier
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  1. Old French · derived fromengorgier
  2. French · derived fromengorger
  3. English todayengorge

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

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