Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

  2. (intransitive)To feed ravenously.

  3. (reflexive)To gorge.

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

More definitions
  • overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictiona

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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Forms

engorges, engorging, engorged, engorged
Base formengorge · to engorge
3rd person singularengorges
Present participleengorging
Past simpleengorged
Past participleengorged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyengorge
he, she, itengorges

Past simpleLesson

all personsengorged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave engorged
he, she, ithas engorged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill engorge

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relateddisgorgeengorgement

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
EnglishA1EnglishmanB1engraveengravingengrossC1engulfB2
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