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third-person singular simple present engorges, present participle engorging, simple past and past participle engorged
(transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. quotations examples
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
(intransitive) To feed ravenously. quotations examples
Greedily she engorged without restraint
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
(pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.