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engorge.

To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/Received-Pronunciation
  1. To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

    transitive
  2. To feed ravenously.

    intransitive
  3. To gorge.

    reflexive
  4. To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.

Where this word comes from

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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