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ENGORGE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they engorge ... he / she / it engorges
Past simple: engorged
Past participle: engorged
-ing form: engorging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Example:
The kids binged on ice cream
Synonyms:
binge; englut; engorge; glut; gorge; gormandise; gormandize; gourmandize; ingurgitate; overeat; overgorge; overindulge; pig out; satiate; scarf out; stuff
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "engorge" is one way to...):
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
engorgement (eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation)
