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engorge

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7 lettersPronunciation /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/Part of speech verbSorted eeggnorStarts with EEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Greedily she engorged without restraint

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