engorges

Meaning of engorges

verb, 3rd person present
  1. cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid.
    the river was engorged by a day-long deluge
  2. 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 engorges

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of engorges is: engorge.
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Hyphenation of engorges

en-gorges

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • engorges is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with engorges

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