engorge

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. transitive
    — One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
  2. To feed ravenously. intransitive
    — Greedily she engorged without restraint
  3. To gorge. reflexive
  4. To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.

词形变化

engorges present,singular,third-person engorging participle,present engorged participle,past engorged past

词汇关系

衍生词
engorgement
相关词
disgorge

词源

From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.
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