engorge
Meaning of engorge
verb
- cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid.
the river was engorged by a day-long deluge
- eat to excess.
you touch not one dish, leaving them afterwards for your servants to engorge themselves therewith
late 15th century (in the sense ‘gorge; eat or fill to excess’): from Old French engorgier ‘feed to excess’, from en- ‘into’ + gorge ‘throat’.
Information about engorge
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of engorge is: engorges.
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CatalanHyphenation of engorge
en-gorge
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- engorge is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
engorge synonyms
Meaning gorge:
gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gourmandize, binge, satiate
Translation of engorge
- German: verschlingen
- French: dévorer
- Italian: divorare, ingollare, ingurgitare, trangugiare
- Spanish: devorar, engullir, tragar
- Portuguese: devorar
Words that rhyme with engorge
corge, DiGeorge, George, george, Laforge, alforge, dropforge, forge, reforge, degorge, demigorge, disgorge, gorge, ingorge, overgorge, regorge, ungorge, upgorge, Jorge, Norge, norge, porge, storge
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