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engorged
We have found lemma(root) word of engorged : engorge.
Definitions
[ɛnˈɡɔːdʒ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid
(e.g: the river was engorged by a day-long deluge)
- eat to excess
(e.g: you touch not one dish, leaving them afterwards for your servants to engorge themselves therewith)
Phrases:
Origin
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late 15th century (in the sense ‘gorge; eat or fill to excess’): from Old French engorgier ‘feed to excess’, from en- ‘into’ + gorge ‘throat’
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