engorged
Meaning of engorged
- cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid.
the river was engorged by a day-long deluge
- eat to excess.
you touch not one dish, leaving them afterwards for your servants to engorge themselves therewith
late 15th century (in the sense ‘gorge; eat or fill to excess’): from Old French engorgier ‘feed to excess’, from en- ‘into’ + gorge ‘throat’.
Information about engorged
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of engorged
en-gorged
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- engorged is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
engorged synonyms
Meaning congested:
Words that rhyme with engorged
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