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engorges

engorges is the third-person singular simple present indicative of engorge.

Meaning of engorge

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.

Questions about engorges

What is engorges the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Engorges is the third-person singular simple present indicative of engorge.

Words near engorges in the dictionary

  1. engores
  2. engorge
  3. engorged
  4. engorgement
  5. engorgements
  6. engorges
  7. engorgeth
  8. engorging
  9. engoring
  10. Engoron
  11. ENGOs

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