"engorge" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-engorge.ogg Forms: engorges [present, singular, third-person], engorging [participle, present], engorged [participle, past], engorged [past]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ Etymology: From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|engorger}} French engorger, {{uder|en|fro|engorgier}} Old French engorgier Head templates: {{en-verb}} engorge (third-person singular simple present engorges, present participle engorging, simple past and past participle engorged)
  1. (transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. Tags: transitive Translations (to devour greedily): ям лакомо (jam lakomo) (Bulgarian), ahmia (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-engorge-en-verb-fbjDAnae Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Chinese translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 44 9 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 45 41 14 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 56 34 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 25 29 6 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 48 38 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Chinese translations: 46 43 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 49 38 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 46 41 13 Disambiguation of 'to devour greedily': 83 14 3
  2. (intransitive) To feed ravenously. Tags: intransitive Translations (to feed ravenously): ahmia (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-engorge-en-verb-wTJPJ5jK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Pages with 2 entries, Terms with Chinese translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 44 9 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 45 41 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 25 29 6 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Chinese translations: 46 43 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 46 41 13 Disambiguation of 'to feed ravenously': 6 93 1
  3. (pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood. Categories (topical): Pathology
    Sense id: en-engorge-en-verb-5U0pJt~k Categories (other): English undefined derivations, Terms with Chinese translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 45 41 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Chinese translations: 46 43 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 46 41 13 Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: engorgement Related terms: disgorge

Verb [French]

Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} engorge
  1. inflection of engorger:
    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: engorger
    Sense id: en-engorge-fr-verb-i3bcCWuY Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 25 29 6 34 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 30 4 37 4 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 81 19
  2. inflection of engorger:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: engorger
    Sense id: en-engorge-fr-verb-LwBLoz09

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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