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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To devour greedily.
  2. v. To gorge; glut.
  3. v. To fill to excess, as with blood or other fluid.
  4. v. To feed ravenously.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To swallow; devour; gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness or in large quantities.
  2. To fill to excess; gorge; specifically, in medicine, to fill to excess with blood; cause hyperemia in.
  3. To devour; feed with eagerness or voracity.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
  2. v. intransitive To feed ravenously.
  3. v. pathology To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To gorge; to glut.
  2. v. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.
  3. v. To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. French engorger, from Old French engorgier : en-, in; see en-1 + gorge, throat; see gorge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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