Engorge

Definition: Engorge

Engorge

Verb

1. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.

Date "engorge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Engorge

Synonyms: binge (v), englut (v), glut (v), gorge (v), gormandise (v), gormandize (v), gourmandize (v), ingurgitate (v), overeat (v), overgorge (v), overindulge (v), pig out (v), satiate (v), scarf out (v), stuff (v). (additional references)

Antonym: nibble (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Gluttony	Verb: gormandize, gorge; overgorge, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp; (swallow food); raven, eat out of house and home.
Reception	Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Engorge

English words defined with "engorge": Engorging ♦ Ingorge. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Engorge" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (obstructs).

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "engorge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kapëdij, gllabëroj (engulf, Raven, swallow up), gëlltit (absorb, consume, engross, engulf, ingest, ingulf, ingurgitate, Raven, soak up, sup, swallow, swallow up). (various references)

Arabic		‏إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf). (various references)

Bulgarian		напълвам се с кръв, задръствам се, претъпкан съм, поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engross, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take down, take in, take over, whelm), излапвам (demolish, polish off, put away). (various references)

Czech		pohltit (absorb, close in on smb., devour, eat up, engulf, gobble, ingulf, swallow up). (various references)

French		engorger, croquer. (various references)

German		schwellen (belly, bulging, burn off, irradiation swelling, sills, swell, swell out, swell up, swelled, swelling, swollen, thresholds), anschwellen (bloat, bulge, bulkage, bulking, puff up, rise, surge, swell, swelled, swelling, swollen, to bulge). (various references)

Greek		καταβροχθίζω (consume, devour, engulf, gobble, gobble up, gorge), παραγεμίζω (chock, clog, cram, fill to bursting, glut, overstuff, pad, stuff, to pack, to stuff). (various references)

Hungarian		befal (to engorge, to gorge, to scoff). (various references)

Indonesian		menelan (devour, swallow). (various references)

Italian		ingozzare (gobble, gulp, gulp down, noodles, swallow). (various references)

Pig Latin		engorgeay

Portuguese		engolir (absorb, eat, engulf, gorgeous, gulf stream, gulp, ingle, neck, pocket, pouch, swallow), inglesa, absorver (absorb, absorbing, adsorb, assimilate, drink away, engross, imbibe, impregnate, occlude, occupy, sip, soak, soak up, swallow). (various references)

Romanian		devora (consume, demolish, destroy, devour, eat away, engulf, wolf), înfuleca (bolt, gorge, guzzle, knap, slummock, wolf, wolf down). (various references)

Russian		объедаться (gormandize, overeat, overfeed, stuff, surfeit), проглатывать (ingest), поглощать (absorb, consume, devour, eat up, engross, engulf, gobble, imbibe, ingurgitate, merge, preoccupy, whelm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		halapljivo gutati (bolt, ingurgitate, shark). (various references)

Spanish		engullir (bolt, devour, gobble, gorge, gulp, guzzle, swallow, tuck in), realizar un engullo. (various references)

Swedish		sluka (devour, eat up, gobble, gulp, scoff, swallow), mätta (be full, glut, have enough, impregnate, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้เลือ�"คั่ง, กินตะกละตะกลาม, มีเลือ�"คั่ง. (various references)

Turkish		yutmak (absorb, buy, choke down, drink in, eat up, elide, engulf, gulp, gulp down, ingest, pouch, swallow, take down), tıkamak (block, block up, bung, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, foul, foul up, glut, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stop up, stopple, stuff, tampon, wad), tıkınmak (batten, bolt, cram, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingurgitate, put away, shift, stodge, stuff, stuff oneself, tuck in), fazla doldurmak (overfill, overload, overstock, surcharge). (various references)

Ukranian		об'їдатися (gorge, gormandize, load up, overeat, overfeed, surfeit oneself), жадібно їсти (guzzle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "engorge": engorged, engorgement, engorgements, engorges. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Engorge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ansorge, engadge, engare, engourge. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-n-o-r"
	-2 letters: egger, genre, genro, goner, gorge, green, grego.
	-3 letters: eger, ergo, erne, gene, goer, gone, gong, gore, gree, grog, nogg, ogee, ogre.
	-4 letters: egg, ego, eng, eon, ere, erg, ern, gee, gen, gor, nee, nog, nor, one, ore, ree, reg, roe.
	-5 letters: en, er, go, ne, no, oe, on, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: engorged, engorges.
	+3 letters: congregate, doggoneder, seignorage.
	+4 letters: congregated, congregates, engorgement, greengrocer, progestogen, segregation, seigniorage, seignorages.
	+5 letters: degringolade, doppelganger, engorgements, exaggeration, geometrising, geometrizing, gorgeousness, greengrocers, greengrocery, grogginesses, overweighing, progestogens, segregations, seigniorages, sloganeering, theatergoing.
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