engorge
Verb
Verb Forms: engorged, engorging, engorges
- To fill to excess, especially with blood.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
- To feed ravenously.
- To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.
Examples
- The player’s mental energy seemed to ENGORGE as the game progressed, making him sharper.
Origin / Etymology
From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.
Synonyms
binge, englut, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff
Scrabble Score: 9
engorge: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordengorge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
engorge: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary