engorge

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(ĕn-gôrj') pronunciation

v., -gorged, -gorg·ing, -gorg·es.

v.tr.
  1. To devour greedily.
  2. To gorge; glut.
  3. To fill to excess, as with blood or other fluid.
v.intr.
To feed ravenously.

[French engorger, from Old French engorgier : en-, in; see en-1 + gorge, throat; see gorge.]

engorgement en·gorge'ment n.

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verb

  1. To swallow (food or drink) greedily or rapidly in large amounts: bolt, down, englut, gobble, gulp, guzzle, ingurgitate, swill, wolf. See ingestion.
  2. To satisfy to the full or to excess: cloy, glut, gorge, pall, sate, satiate, surfeit. See excess/insufficiency/enough, full/empty/capacity.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - forsluge, overfylde, sluge
v. intr. - overfylde med blod, hugge i sig

Nederlands (Dutch)
verslinden, volzuigen met bloed, volstoppen

Français (French)
v. tr. - engorger
v. intr. - (Méd) s'engorger

Deutsch (German)
v. - überfüllen, gierig verschlingen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - καταβροχθίζω, χλαπακιάζω

Italiano (Italian)
ingurgitare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - ingurgitar (Med.), congestionar (Med.), saciar

Русский (Russian)
объедаться, наливаться кровью

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - devorar, congestionar, obstruir
v. intr. - comer con voracidad

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - sluka

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
大吃, 使充血, 狼吞虎咽, 贪吃, 充血

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 大吃, 使充血, 狼吞虎咽
v. intr. - 大吃, 貪吃, 充血

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 마구 틀어넣다, 충혈 시키다
v. intr. - 포식하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - がぶがぶ飲む, 飽食させる, 貪り食う, 充血させる, 体腔一杯血を吸う, むさぼり食う

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يحتقن بالدم, يلتهم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮בלע, גדש בדם, פיטם, טרף, זלל, סתם‬
v. intr. - ‮בלע, גדש בדם, פיטם, טרף, זלל, סתם‬


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