engorge

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UK/ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/

verb

To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

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gorgeingurgitateoverindulgeglutenglutstuffovergorgeovereat
OriginFrench engorger ← Old French engorgier →
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Meanings

verbengorge (third-person singular simple present engorges, present participle engorging, simple past and past participle engorged)

present singular third person engorges · participle present engorging · participle past engorged · past engorged

  1. transitiveTo 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.

    2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
  2. intransitiveTo feed ravenously.

    Greedily she engorged without restraint

    1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
  3. reflexiveTo gorge.
  4. medicineTo fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbovereat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Similar
gorgeingurgitateoverindulgeglutenglutstuffovergorgeovereatgormandizegormandisegourmandizebingepig outsatiatescarf out
Broader
eat
Also see
bingedevourenglutglutgorgeingurgitateovereatovergorgeoverindulgepig outsatiatestuff

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Old Frenchengorgier
  2. Frenchengorger
  3. Englishengorge

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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Translations

Bulgarian ям лакомо
  • ям лакомо (jam lakomo)to devour greedily
Czech hltat
  • hltatto feed ravenously
Finnish ahmia, ahmia
  • ahmiato devour greedily
  • ahmiato feed ravenously
Polish jeść łakomo
  • jeść łakomoto devour greedily

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with engorge

GeorgeforgegorgedisgorgegorgCape St. GeorgeSaint George
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Anagrams

Goergenreggeon
Cite this entry
APA

engorge. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engorge

MLA

“engorge.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engorge. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “engorge,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engorge.

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