engorge

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What's the point of an erotic novel if it doesn't engage and engorge the senses and other body parts?

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  1. transitive verb To devour greedily.
  2. transitive verb To gorge; glut.
  3. transitive verb To fill to excess, as with blood or other fluid.
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  • Stop Feeding / Pumping, And just let them engorge. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Surely this debate will engorge when the anti-energy industry finds the right champion. —  State Journal Featured Content
  • The US Congress has adopted the strategy of feeding the parasitic bug to allow it to engorge itself on the blood and essence of free enterprise to the point that it exceeds its natural limits and pops like a pricked toy balloon. —  Knowledge is Power
  • * Unfortunately for Benji, the only way back into Paris 'heart is for him to engorge a specific part of his body to Herculean proportions. —  Celebslam: They're Better Than Us
  • The easily obtainable credit that had helped create and engorge the real estate bubble continued to be a problem for several years to come, and as late as 1997, banks were still making loans that had a low guarantee of being repaid. —  The Bankwatch
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French engorger, from Old French engorgier : en-, in; see en-1 + gorge, throat; see gorge.

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  1. Formerly also ingorge; from French engorger (= Provencal engorgar, engorjar = Italian ingorgare, ingorgiare), from en- + gorge, the throat: see gorge.
 

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