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ENGORGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does engorge mean? 

ENGORGE (verb)
  The verb ENGORGE has 1 sense:

1. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneselfplay

  Familiarity information: ENGORGE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ENGORGE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they engorge  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it engorges  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: engorged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: engorged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: engorging  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

binge; englut; engorge; glut; gorge; gormandise; gormandize; gourmandize; ingurgitate; overeat; overgorge; overindulge; pig out; satiate; scarf out; stuff

Context example:

The kids binged on ice cream

Hypernyms (to "engorge" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

engorgement (eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation)


 Context examples 


Signs and symptoms include shortness of breath, pitting edema, enlarged tender liver, engorged neck veins, and pulmonary rales.

(Congestive heart failure, NCI Thesaurus)

Therefore, it is very puzzling why there is a thin disk encircling a starving black hole in NGC 3147 that mimics much more powerful disks found in extremely active galaxies with engorged, monster black holes.

(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)



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