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ENGORGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does engorged mean?
• ENGORGED (adjective)
The adjective ENGORGED has 1 sense:
1. overfull as with blood
Familiarity information: ENGORGED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overfull as with blood
Synonyms:
congested; engorged
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
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)
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