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engorging

engorging is the present participle and gerund 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 engorging

What is engorging the present participle and gerund of?
Engorging is the present participle and gerund of engorge.

Words near engorging in the dictionary

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

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