ENGORGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does engorge mean? 

• ENGORGE (verb)
  The verb ENGORGE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ENGORGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGORGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they engorge    ... he / she / it engorges   
Past simple: engorged   
Past participle: engorged   
-ing form: engorging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

binge; englut; engorge; glut; gorge; gormandise; gormandize; gourmandize; ingurgitate; overeat; overgorge; overindulge; pig out; satiate; scarf out; stuff

Context example:

The kids binged on ice cream

Hypernyms (to "engorge" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

engorgement (eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation)

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include shortness of breath, pitting edema, enlarged tender liver, engorged neck veins, and pulmonary rales.

(Congestive heart failure, NCI Thesaurus)

Therefore, it is very puzzling why there is a thin disk encircling a starving black hole in NGC 3147 that mimics much more powerful disks found in extremely active galaxies with engorged, monster black holes.

(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)