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engorge

UK/ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/

engorge verb: to devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

Verb

engorge (third-person singular simple present engorges, present participle engorging, simple past and past participle engorged)

  1. (transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
    • One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
  2. (intransitive) To feed ravenously.
    • Greedily she engorged without restraint1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
  3. (reflexive) To gorge.
  4. To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.

engorge meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

engorge in Tamil

அகவீக்கம்

engorge in Bengali

ক্ষুধার্তভাবে খাওয়া, পেট পুরে খাওয়া, শরীরের তরল

engorge in Kannada

ಮುಕ್ಕು

Forms of engorge

third-person singular presentengorges
present participleengorging
past participleengorged
pastengorged

Origin of engorge

From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.

Words formed from engorge

Words that rhyme with engorge

Questions about engorge

What does engorge mean?
Engorge means to devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
What is engorge in Tamil?
Engorge in Tamil is அகவீக்கம். See Engorge meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is engorge?
Engorge is a verb.
How do you pronounce engorge?
Engorge is pronounced /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of engorge?
The past tense of engorge is engorged.

Words near engorge in the dictionary

  1. engonoceratids
  2. engordacabra
  3. engore
  4. engored
  5. engores
  6. engorge
  7. engorged
  8. engorgement
  9. engorgements
  10. engorges
  11. engorgeth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: engorge (page history and authors); engorge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); engorge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); engorge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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