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How to pronounce engorge in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms binge, englut, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff
Type of eat
Derivation engorgement

Examples of engorge

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You take a large pipe and stuff it down their throats to engorge their livers.
From the sacbee.com
And I open my laptop, slip in a DVD and settle back to indulge and engorge.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Analysts who were supposed to guide and protect investors used them to engorge themselves and their firms.
From the businessweek.com
Female ticks require six to 10 days to engorge fully.
From the sciencedaily.com
Such men are unable to produce nitric oxide, the chemical which triggers the penis to engorge with blood.
From the newscientist.com
The only players of consequence were the publicly listed companies who created a cartel to engorge their own interests.
From the economist.com
With feeding, they enlarge, or engorge, with blood.
From the sciencedaily.com
In the second phase, the breasts engorge with blood, and in the final phase, the labia minora engorges in blood and darkens.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Some experiments have already suggested that normal, mated ticks are unable to fully engorge when feeding on a host that has been immunized against the engorgement factor proteins.
From the sciencedaily.com
Insisting and facilitating elitist global comrades to shape society and feed the step-siblings voracious appetite for printing money to engorge on interest.
From the infowars.com
More examples
  • Gorge: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
  • (engorged) congested: overfull as with blood
  • (engorgement) congestion with blood; "engorgement of the breast"
  • (engorgement) eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
  • In biology, engorgement is a naturally occurring or pathological condition of vessels being saturated with fluids. It may happen for instance in the breast or in other erectile tissues like the penis.
  • To devour something greedily, gorge, glut; To feed ravenously; To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood
  • (engorged) Of or pertaining to something that is overly filled with fluid, especially a blood vessel
  • (Engorged) In arthropods, to fill to excess with blood.
  • (engorged (en-GORJD)) distended or swollen with fluids.