gorging

Verb

gorge (third-person singular simple present gorges, present participle gorging, simple past and past participle gorged)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
   • They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
2. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
   • Seiz'd by his [a lion's] stalwart teeth, at once | his victim's [a cow's] neck is broken:
     Thereafter, swilleth he the blood, | and all her entrails gorgeth.1871, Homer, “Book XI. Disasters of Achaian Chiefs.”, in Francis W[illiam] Newman, transl., The Iliad of Homer: Faithfully Translated into Unrhymed English Metre, 2nd revised edition, London: Trübner...
3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
   • If in thy doting and decrepit age,
     Thy ſoul, a ſtranger in thy youth to rage,
     Begins in cruel deeds to take delight,
     Gorge with my blood thy barb'rous appetite; […]a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “[Translations from Boccace.] Sigismonda and Guiscardo.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume III, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson...

   Synonyms:

   sate, stuff

4. (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
   • At the mouth of the river there is shoal water, in which the ice grounds, and in severe weather, it forms a point of support for successive floating masses, until it sometimes gorges up for many miles above the ferry of the railway line.1852 March, Ellwood Morris, “Notice of a Railroad upon an Ice Grade”, in John F[ries] Frazer, editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic...

   Synonyms:

   engorge

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