Meanings
present singular third person ingurgitates · participle present ingurgitating · participle past ingurgitated · past ingurgitated
- To swallow greedily or in large amounts.
Nothing pesters the body and mind sooner than to be still fed, to eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure, as many do.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 1, subsection 2 - transitiveTo swallow up, as in a gulf.
If a man do but once set his appetite upon it [pleasure], let him ingurgitate himself never so deep into it, yet shall he never be able to fill his desire with it.
1622, Fotherby, Atheom
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
verbovereat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latiningurgitāre
- Englishingurgitate
From the participle stem of Latin ingurgitāre, from in- + gurges (“whirlpool”).
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