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    ENGORGE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they engorge  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it engorges  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: engorged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: engorged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: engorging  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneselfplay

    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:

    Verbs of eating and drinking

    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)

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